On the train to the city we noticed the crossing changes at the next station. It’s quite interesting as they are building an underpass for the train. Alex asked if the new station platform would be underground, or on a slope. This had not occurred to me! Where will they build the new station? More […]
Category: Unschooling
‘Technically’, another trip to Scienceworks and dehydration
The kids were rushing me to get to their friends house, so we kept busy with lego, puzzles, trains, cutting and more until it was time to leave. The kids had a great play with what they call their best friends – Alex gets to play with barbies as he doesn’t have any himself, we […]
Macedon Gardens, HS park plays and creativity
We headed to a private gardens in Mt Macedon with friends. We were eager to see evidence of Autumn! As we got on to Macedon road, the temperature dropped by about 5 degrees! We parked and it was so cold! Even Alex wanted coats on. […]
Rockpool rambling, The Ronnies guy and a strewing success!
I had organised for us to do a junior rangers event at Jawbone Marine Reserve as I was unable to get into the holiday program so contacted them directly. The rangers provided the kids with a scavenger hunt to complete and led them into discussions about them. We found stingray indentations, felt the roughness of tubeworms, […]
Another week – an uninspired title!
Football to start the weekend! Afterwards I took the kids toi South Melbourne market to buy fish. On the way home we stopped at the playground in Docklands. We had lots of fun – Daniel had me climb the tower with him and go down the tall slide. We walked to toyworld with intentions of […]
Beach fun, Lion parties and clothing design
Up and straight to the play room! I love days like this 🙂 Alex was playing with his lego, Daniel with the geoboard. Daniel put together 2 bands to meet at the same point and said ‘angle’ – I started singing the song from Blaze lol. I got out the paper aeroplanes kit I picked […]
Exploring – the wild and the suburbs
After the usual Saturday morning football, for which Alex got up and ready by himself the kids and I had a weekend with not much to do so we decided to go explore the wild (Alex sees that as feather collecting!) Alex made a book to take with him to document what he would see […]
Art, in many forms!
The weekend started off with the usual early start for football. Again Alex’s empathy and kind heart are displayed as he asks a child that fell if he was okay and helped pick him up. The child that fell reacted quite interestingly, not wanting help (or thinking he shouldn’t get help?) even though visibly upset. […]
Easter Holidays
Short recap of the holidays, in no particular order as I am still a few weeks behind! MUSEUM – Kids loved catching the train as always. At the museum we headed straight for the egg activities. There were no snake eggs – we asked. But there was lots of interesting stuff like lizard eggs, shark […]
Easter weekend 2016
Of course, Easter was filled with family and food. But not much chocolate. The kids received some eggs, but barely touched them and so they ended up in my tummy! I gave them a sewing craft to have a go at, and Alex really embraced his. He did it mostly by himself and even finished […]