Saturday, March 27, 2021

Term One: Week Eight ~ Photography Challenge and Books

Our heavy, torrential rain continued well into the week which meant that we hung out indoors and focused our attention on structured written work and read alouds. Hence no photographs of schoolwork and we certainly didn't spend time outdoors.

My photography challenge theme for the next fortnight is "lines" and I was lucky enough to snap this photo while we were out driving around doing some errands. It certainly wasn't dry enough to go walking with my camera. I do try to put a Sydney/Australian twist to my themes when I can.



Lots of different books in Munchkin's selection of independent reading this week...

We continue to work through this new series as part of Munchkin's Australian history unit study. I'm really pleased with these books and I would HIGHLY recommend them to anyone who is looking for a good overview of Australian history.


Another new book has been released in the Ninja Kid series, so Munchkin requested that we borrow all the books from the library again...

Independent reading for Monkey (left book) and Monster (right book). 

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Term One: Week Seven ~ Rain... Rain... and More Rain

Week Seven is lacking in photographs of structured written work (though it got done), and much in the way of outdoor photos, as some torrential rain arrived towards the end of the week.


I took some time to photograph my favourite flowers before the rains came and destroyed them all!



Monkey spent some time one afternoon mixing up his homemade slime kit, and since he was able to do all the steps independently, I was able to photograph the process.  

On Friday afternoon the heavens opened... and it rained...

And rained...

And rained some more! On Saturday the boys even played outside in the rain.




We finished the fourth and last book of the Grace series.



Munchkin enjoyed reading STACKS of Beast Quest books...


These books are still a favourite in our house...

We enjoyed a picture book version of 101 Dalmatians and also read Starlight Barking.

I finished off a WWI read aloud for Monster (left photo) and a GREAT Inventions book that I read aloud to all three boys!








Munchkin cleaned the library out of their collection of Beast Quest books and when he wasn't playing in the rain, he was reading!!