Month: July 2014
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A Surprise Day Out
This morning Gary and I were woken up at 6.50am by a cute little three year old repeating the word beach over and over. I turned over and went back to sleep expecting her to climb in next to me and snuggle down. She didn’t. She was very shortly joined by her brother and sisters […]
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Incr-Edible Science: Bacteria and Yogurt Making
So far we have looked at the different types of bacteria, building our own model: We’ve experimented with growing bacteria cultures on agar in petri dishes testing which area of the kitchen was the dirtiest: And finding out which was dirtiest the loo or the sink? We are currently testing the efficacy of various cleaners […]
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Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss:losing weight the wibbly wobbly way – week 5
Another week, another weigh in! The competition is hotting up between Gary and I, with Gary exercising like mad with our son, and me using the very helpful tip he gave me last week – feeding him larger portions! Didn’t work though, with him winning this week with a two pounds weight-loss compared with my one pound. […]
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Literature Studies: Chaucer – A Play of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale
We only do Chaucer studies once a week on a Tuesday, or at least that is the plan. I have, as always, over estimated what we can fit in, so the children aren’t getting much time to do each activity. Sometimes that is good. The last activity felt pressurised and therefore less enjoyable. This activity […]
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Polymer Play: Making Plastic
I got the idea of making plastic from one of the Leonardo Da Vinci books. He was said to have been the inventor of plastic and whilst this is obviously not like the plastic we know and love now, I thought it would be a fun activity for my littles to do. I am grateful that […]
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Da Vinci and his Printing Press
We have been studying Gutenberg’s printing press recently, first by familiarising ourselves with his printing press and then attempting to make our own. Whilst Leonardo wasn’t the first to invent the printing press he did attempt to improve upon Gutenberg’s own design. I had bought a Make-Your-Own kit for the Da Vinci press. I hadn’t […]
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Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss- Losing Weight the Wibbly Wobbly Way: Week 4
Source Hello everyone! With the Uk in the middle of its first heat wave of the year, I have to report that I have been pathetic this week, in the extreme. I do not like heat, never have, never will. My walking has taken a complete nose dive. Our home remains fairly cool, however, so I have been stretching […]
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Precious Moments
This week has been the week of very little computer or screen time. I wrote on Tuesday about how we were all limiting it, including Gary and I. I was finding it hard enough to fit in blogging since I have been using the night-time hour to, you know, sleep. Cutting our computer time down to […]
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Computer Time: the blessing which turned into a curse
A few months ago, after much scrimping and saving, we purchased a computer each for our four girls. Six months prior to this T12 had been given one as a joint birthday and Christmas present from Gary and I. We watched as our son, who has always struggled to express himself in writing, began to type […]
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Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss – Losing weight the wibbly wobbly way: Week 3
Another week has flown by. Is it me, or does time pass much quicker the older one gets. It seems to me it was yesterday I was writing last week’s post. My week has been purposeful in its pursuit of exercise and even when rain, thunder and lightening raged above, I was below trudging in […]