We have found some new Wild Kratts episodes on youtube (unfortunately Netflix only shows season 1 and in the US they are up to season 4!) So Alex has been watching back to back episodes on it, and most notably he’s singing the theme song! In one episode, Alex commented on the hair of one […]
Category: Unschooling
A day in the city – music (almost), food, cars and more
I had tickets to go to the MSO’s second family classics day. Alex was very interested in the orchestra and was looking keenly at all of the instruments. He also enjoyed the music when it started, but unfortunately Daniel did not feel the same way and so we left. Fortunately Vio was with us in […]
Playing together, another zoo trip, plus our usual week
The kids have been playing together more recently and it’s been nice to watch. They mostly play with the same thing together, Alex gets toy envy very quickly if he sees Daniel using something. Lts of the time is spent on the trampoline, using play dough or playing trains, but in this case the kids […]
Outings, building and martial arts
In the first week back of school term, it was very hot! So we took to the beach. It was nice, but the wind was a bit much and so we were there for less than an hour. We returned to one of our favourite places (Animal […]
Train tracks, playdough and Science Club
In October we started Science club. Since I am playing catch up with these posts I’ll just include all the detail here. I have been involved in the organising, I usually host one of the experiment stations. We did miss a week as we were sick with gastro and so needed to avoid social settings. We […]
Camping!
Alex has been counting down the weeks then days to camping for sooo long now. It’s finally here! We got all packed up and left much earlier than usual! We got to Healesville and set up camp. The Big4 there suits us perfectly – the kids have the jumping pillow, can play with other kids […]
Carnival of the animals and vio home!
We ventured into the city on the train to see a show – I love the theatre! This show was called Carnival of the Animals and it was at the arts centre. it was all mime, and acrobatics. It was amazing! I was anxious about Daniel and his behaviour but he was mesmerised! not once […]
Birds of prey and saying bye to Vio
In line with Alex’s interest in birds of prey, I organised a visit to ‘Full flight’ which had an open day at it’s new location near Ballarat. It was a long drive with these 2, they are not fans of being in the car for too long. The bird show was great – it included […]
Playdates – the good, the bad and the ugly!
Since it’s the school holidays and scienceworks was crazy, we’re doing a lot of staying at home. We had some HS friends over on Tuesday so that I could discuss some plans with the mum about her new science club and she wanted me to be involved. Alex was being very difficult and not particularly […]
Pigeon babies, snakes and tyrannosaurs
Vio took the kids to his parents and Alex was happy to see 2 baby pigeons. To me they are so ugly but he adores them! We played at home for the rest of the day whilst Vio did some more handiwork – he’s been working on upcycling the kids cot to a kids sofa […]