We’ve had a bit of time at home this week. Alex has wanted to make things – he got some boxes together and made a cheetah, which he painted too (late one night I might add!) He also made a peacock out of a ‘kids activities delivered’ box I got for both of them – […]
Category: Unschooling
Feather collecting, cooking apps and Monarch butterflies
The week started with a public holiday, and so Vio took the kids to the park with his sister and they had a picnic. Back home I helped Alex make some lego things, then we had a good play dough session as I’d made a fresh batch that morning. Daniel just wanted to smash, and […]
A big week out
This week we headed out nearly every day. It was another hot Tuesday, and so coop was at Watermarc which is an indoor pool. What a fabulous place! They have this huge playground inside with slides and plenty of water features. the kids were fascinated by the giant bucket of water that poured over everything. There […]
Juggling, Pink Lakes, and “I don’t care”
After a great Miniroos session, I took the kids to a Circus Oz workshop. Daniel did not want to take part but Alex got right into it with a friend of his. They did drama style techniques like fast forwarding their movements, pretending to be in a freeze frame for a particular scene. Also some […]
March
It’s not the last week of March, but I am just beginning my blog posts on March! I’m desperately trying to catch up so that I am only a week behind, that way I hope to remember more meaningful things like conversations and little interactions, rather than just places we go. We had our first […]
Healesville zoo, a fancy pigeon and Vice captain!
We had planned a trip to Healesville zoo with friends and had an absolutely fabulous day! We watched the bird show, fed parrots, patted a lace monitor, played as vets and played in the nature space. Here are some pictures of the day: The parrot […]
Sustainability, minibeasts and drumming!
The local council hosts an annual sustainability expo and this year I took the kids. There was a petting zoo that the kids loved, Daniel was really keen on feeding the animals, but not holding them, and was putting food in his hands. Of course they had a snake which Alex just had to hold! […]
Co-op, bike ed and the zoo
The theme for co-op was dress up and paleontology. My kids had no interest in the latter, and dressed as the Kratt brothers. Alex played lightsabers with the same boys as last week. He also had his bike and scooter out to ride around the skate park. One of the boys appeases Alex, even if […]
Shells, snakes and sound
I really wanted to take the kids somewhere, just us. I suggested a place we’d never been – Plum Garland Reserve at South Melbourne beach. Alex loved the pictures but wanted Clean and Liam to come so I invited them. We got there and Alex declared it the best park ever! They dug trenches to […]
Smashing and lightsabers
Our days are always good when we start with long cuddles. I always found morning rushes to be hard for Alex, he seems to need a bit of connection at the start of a day and prefers if he is first up! Daniel decided he wanted to smash, so I grabbed some scrap wood and […]