Being woken at 5am by my two year old, Alice, after a late night travelling between France and England in the 1400’s, isn’t easy (though, thanks Philippa Gregory for the escapism). I lay on the sofa, trying to sleep, hoping the ‘Peppa Pig‘ DVD would suffice to keep Alice from demanding too much attention. By…
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Silent Sunday
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Notes from our Home School Journal, 12 June, 2012
Catching up from last week with this post. I’m finding this weekly review a useful exercise. In my life last week… The whole family, except my oldest, had colds. Blur! I only had three days of my homeschooler and youngest at home – what with the long Queen’s Birthday weekend and Diamond Jubilee, giving us…
Swim Home Carpet Shark! You are free!
The old bait house in Island Bay is home to a wonderful little ‘Marine Education Centre‘ that provides the children of Wellington the opportunity to get hands on with the creatures that live along the South Coast. On Sunday we popped in to give Alice and Sophie an opportunity to say hello to the rocky…
A natural tribute to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Here in New Zealand we are grateful to always have the first Monday of June as a public holiday, to celebrate the Queen’s Official Birthday. It is our last public holiday till the end of October and before we rug up proper to face three months of winter in windy Wellington. Traditionally, we’ve often been…
Things I’m Loving & Rounding Up Photo a Day MAY 23 – 31
LOVE the surprise of a huge pile of sand on the beach (that appeared literally over night down at Lyall Bay). Photo a Day MAY | 25th | UNUSUAL LOVE seeing Charlotte and Sophie team up and learn to play a few tunes together on their recorders (which were a Christmas present, at least two…
Notes from our Home School Journal, 25 May, 2012
We’ve had a really industrious week. A little planning on Sunday really helped everything flow this week (and the great weather has definitely helped with a positive outlook!). But though I planned ideas for different learning areas – I kept entirely flexible – gauging where there was interest and pursing only when I saw that…
Learning, rock pooling & something ‘PINK’!
This morning we were greeted to sunshine, blue sky and no wind – late autumnal weather of the finest kind. After an hour of on-line work (Sophie has been checking out K12 online school and doing some free trail lessons), we closed off the electronics and headed out the front door for some fresh air…
Photo A Day MAY | Something I can’t live without
Obviously food, clean water and shelter (which I’m extremely grateful for every day) are the essentials that I can’t live without – and my heart frequently aches for the millions of people around the world that are struggling to survive without the basics. But, beyond those essentials, is LOVE. The love of my family is…
Silent Sunday
Silent Sunday | The rules: Use just one photo in your post. You must have taken the picture. Use a photo taken in the week leading up to your post. ___________________________________________
Photo A Day MAY | A favourite place
I thought of taking a journey into my memory bank, where so many favourite places live, but in the end I wanted to capture a moment from today. It was a blustery, autumnal day here in Wellington. A Saturday morning of taking it easy. The older girls played a game of Yahtzee, whilst Alice was…
Something that Makes You Happy & Mums!
Hubbie came home from his travels yesterday and the smiles were BEAMING on all our faces. The sunshine returned to Wellington too, a perfect welcome home. HAPPY! HAPPY! HAPPY! Today in New Zealand is ‘Mothers Day’ (and in many other countries around the world). So LOVE to all my lovely Mummy friends and my own…
Photo A Day MAY | Bird [flying on the eve of a full moon]
‘Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me!‘ Eric Carle you’ve given my little girl the thought that she can play with the moon. She stared at the moon, saying, ‘Hello Moon!’ and then turned to me and said, ‘Fetch a ladder Mummy!’. But, as mole discovers in ‘Bringing Down the Moon‘, some things are not…
Photo A Day MAY | Peace
Alice, age 26 months, is starting to get a little tricky with her naps. She can’t really get through a whole day without one… but if she has one too late, or too long, it turns her into a little night owl! It’s going to be a topsy turvy couple of months – coupled with…