Longtime friends

Me and Jo have been friends since we were four.  That is a grand total of 39 years!!  I can't tell you how old that makes me feel! We shared many experiences during our friendship.  Been on holiday together, helped each other out when needed.  The thing that we have always done is laughed.  Today we laughed our heads off talking about some of our memories.  

When we were teenagers I didn't like cooking.  Refused to do it infact. Told anyone that would listen that I couldn't cook.  When Jo, came over today I gave her a slice of the cheesecake that I had made from scratch.  Laugh, we certainly did!

We have been busy..

 We are going to talk about this project above tomorrow.  I am looking forward to this group so much. I do love History, I really hope the Ryver continues to enjoy it.   The above photos are of the Scythian people. Such an interesting tribe of peoples.  They were the first people to introduce horses into battle and for men to wear trousers!! Oh and they did enjoy a war!!

Had a great time with Ryver looking at lots of painting by Jean Miro.  We looked up how much they are selling for now.  One sold this week for £24 million!!  Ryver then painted his own versions of Miro paintings. 

I also taught Ryver about Mountains and the different types of mountains.  He was amazed at how a fold mountain is created and that they are still growing.  Ryver then made each of the different style mountains using playdoh  


So we have been busy, but will try to update more often so I can elaborate more in the post about the work we are doing.


laters!

Potatoes, Blog and Tuesday club

Ryver checked on the potatoes that we are growing today.  I was slightly worried that after all the rain and a really stormy night that they may have become waterlogged.  It was such a nice surprise to see that the first lot the Rocket variety are doing really well and look healthy. 

I can't remember the name of this variety at the moment, but they are not doing as well as Rocket.  I have repositioned them so they get a bit more sun.  Maybe they need it, like the rest of us. Today was a beautiful day.

The blog style has changed again.  I can feel that it will change again.  Not 100% happy with this style. I don't like the RSS bar, but don't know how to get rid of it and the title of the blog has had to change because I can't resize the text?!  I am always trying to do this late in the evening, so I am to tired to concentrate fully.  Mental note to try again in daylight hours.


Tuesday club has moved to a new home and a new day.  I have to say that this is one of my favourite clubs.  A group of mums and their children meet on a monthly basis.  Amongst the parents we all decided a topic and pick something within that topic to talk about at the following months group. This month it was Power, Ryver picked this topic.  I think he was thinking more of Marvel and Spiderman to be honest, but it was a great session.  We had presentations on Nucular Power - I loved the role-play in this, all the kids being either atoms, or electrons excellent idea and I learnt loads.  Magnets, Ryver loved this one best, magnets are brilliant.  Others included Car Engines, Bio Fuel, Fossil Fuel and Wet Cell Batteries.  Really interesting stuff.  Ryver picked human power.  So we got balloons and everyone had a balloon to blow up and then we placed markers to see how far the balloons would travel.  Issac was the winner at over 10ft, followed by Thomas at 7ft.  

I am happy with this!  A few tweaks left to do, a couple of pages that I want to add for our home educating projects and my photography.


If I could work out how to alter the text in the header I would be happy.  The first thing I am going to look for on pin interest is how to do that!  

Ryver made a rain catcher today so that we can measure how much rain we have daily for a week.  Thought might swell make use of the rubbish weather.  My plan is to introduce Ryver to the water cycle once he has recorded his findings for a week.  To make a lap book  and put his records in there.  I have so many ideas  around my head at the moment, I can feel myself running too quickly almost.  Have to take a breath and walk.  

As you might have guessed I have been playing around with the layout of this blog, oh flipping heck why did I start.  I just want it to look pretty, instead I have managed to get it too look messy.


So expect a few more changes over the course of the next couple of days.

Birds project

We spent the day with some friends on Friday and spent the day doing a project on birds.  We had such a great time.  Firstly we gave the boys lapbooks.  This is the first project where Ryver is using a lapbook.  I really like the idea of them, it has taken me awhile to get my head around how they can work for me and Ryver, I sort of have the template that I want to work with, trial and error and time will guide me from now onwards!


It rained on and off for the whole day, so we made the most of the brief sunshine and gathered some materials from the garden to try and make a nest.   Have to say I am in awe of birds for this skill of nest making.  It was fun and interesting to see what the boys suggested and the materials they gathered, but nest making is not our strong point.


Once the rain started again, we all came inside to make some salt dough.  I love that stuff and will be making tons of it from now onwards.  As the topic of the day was birds, they all made a model of something to do with birds.  


I am still planning and organising myself. My day works out so much better when I have put in a bit more planning.  So even though I want to be spontaneous, I have decided that organised and spontaneous will have to work together.  So once I know topics that we are doing in the month for the groups we attend. I start to research information, photos, maps etc and have all the print outs ready, so I can give Ryver a choice, of topic for that day.  It seems to be working.


I have discovered Pintrest....OMG, I love that site.   I have pined all sorts of things, educational, places I want to go, photography. It really is a great site.  Off to pin right now!

I spent a bit of time over the weekend, planning and getting ready for Monday.  As I mentioned in a previous post I found this great blog/website.   I have read bits of it and taken on some of the ideas.  Having a loose plan in my head was great.  What was even better was getting all the materials ready that I needed.  A simple thing but a little thing like having all the worksheets printed makes such a difference.  I am even ready for tomorrow!

Spent the afternoon at Willows Farm. A really great place to be.  Ryver and his friend love it.  It was silly busy it must have been inset day in the schools.

We are going to work on our project of Scott of the Antarctic tomorrow.  I have all the printing done, just might need to add a couple of bits but will decide that with Ryver tomorrow. 

One of the regular groups that we go to had a topic of birds.  Ryver and I decided that we would do Owl pellets.  We were both really impressed with our little pellets.  Things like this really grab the attention of Ryver.  This is an activity that we will do again I am certain.

On our recent trip to RAF Hendon Ryver made rotor blades.  The person running the session took us on a little tour of the helicopters.  When we went back about a week later, I was pleased that Ryver had remembered some of the information.