Schooling With Help From Nana

Nana was visiting so I had an extra pair of hands during our school day!!

While Monster worked on his school work the younger boys had their own things to do...

Monkey got busy working on some pre-writing pages that I had as he is keen to learn to write.

With the protection of sitting on Nana's lap, Munchkin was able to try putting the pipe cleaners in the bottle again - this time WITHOUT help from his brothers!

Then, in the afternoon, while Munchkin had his nap, Monster and Monkey has some sensory play time.  I mixed cornflour and shaving cream and let them explore.

Fun With Playdough

I have been trying to schedule some sort of messy play or activity (painting, playdough, craft, etc) in to the boys school schedule as I feel that is very important at this age.

Because we rent I prefer that almost all of these activities take place outside where clean up is easier and the house/carpet are safe.

The weather plays a part in it... and has prevented many an activity I have planned... but eventually we find a nice day and out we go to the backyard for some fun.

On this particular day (after another stretch of rain) the boys were thrilled to have a chance to play with brand new play dough (as the previous batch I had made a few months ago went moldy)!

They played nicely for a couple of hours allowing me a chance to get caught up on laundry and dishes!

They each had a rainbow of colours to choose from...
unfortunately they both decided to mix the colours eventually but such is life!

Rolling out the dough...

James worked hard to make a play dough pizza...

While Jeremy enjoyed the cupcake making mould.
I had given them straws as well but those weren't very popular so next time I'll give them paddle pop sticks (popsicle sticks) to work with.