Kite Making And Birthday Cake!

We have been to our two homeschooling groups this week. At the first group (on Tuesday) the children made kites from recycled carrier bags.

They even flew a little bit!!

We have a tradition at our Wednesday group to bring cake to share for our children's birthdays. As it is Hannah's birthday tomorrow I baked cakes to take to group this week.

Chocolate and Vanilla Cake

Lemon Cake

All Hannah's friends sang Happy Birthday to her - she was very happy!!

So, tomorrow my little girl turns 9 years old!! Where has the time gone? Happy Birthday Hannah xx

A Little Bit Of 'School'.

We have some new work books! We have Learning Language Arts Through Literature which was sent to us by friends in USA and Scholastics Success With Math which looks really fun and useful and came from Amazon.

The LLATL set we have is grade 4 and Hannah is only really grade 3, but the grade 4 set uses two of her favourite books - The Boxcar Children and Sign Of The Beaver - so she was happy to work up a grade.

We started them today and she did really well and enjoyed working on them.

The blue glue stick may not have been a great buy !!

Finally, Hannah is currently dancing up a storm to two ukulele playing misfits  Daddy and his friend Nick playing ukulele in the living room!

Countryside Day - Sparsholt

Sparsholt College is a further education college offering courses in Agriculture, Equine Studies, Forestry, Fisheries, Game and Wildlife Management, and just about any other rural study you can think of! Hannah has been really keen to see the college as she is still hoping to pursue a rural career, so when our friends told us about the Countryside Day they were holding we had to go!

It was fantastic! We got to see and do so much, and spent the day with our friends which was great.


Hannah met the calves,

Watched a riding display,

Met the farrier,

and climbed a rock!

We watched working dog training,

and a dog agility class.

Hannah and I both had a go at Archery. It was really fun - i'd love to do it again!

We learned about eggs,

and slow worms.

Rode on an old 1960's bus,

 visited the animal enclosures with our friends,

 and had a really long, happy day :-)

Baffins Pond

On Friday Hannah went to a workshop at the Baffins Library, and afterwards we went for a picnic and play at the pond. I gave Hannah my camera to take some pictures of the pond and she took some really nice ones! These are all hers (except for the ones she is in - she's not quite that good yet !!)

Willow Tree

View Across The Pond

I love this shot of the Gulls 

Moorhen Chick

Little Moorhen Family

Hannah

Gosling

Gosling Family!

Teeny Tiny Coot Chick

Feeding The Ducks!