After a day at their grandparents playing with pigeons and chickens, I took Alex to karate. Afterwards he insisted on going to the toy shop to spend his birthday money. As we had already tried Target and Kmart and they had no transformers, I took him late night shopping at Toys R Us! They too […]
Category: Unschooling
Birthday, beach and a hard lesson
We made some creature power discs to go in the power suits as they only came with a few – so I printed them off the internet, we coloured, cut and laminated. Alex was trying to work out what all the creatures were and find his favourites. His other present arrived in the mail today – […]
The lead up to Alex being 6!!!
The days after camping were fairly quiet. One morning I set up some experiments for the kids as Alex had asked me to keep doing science experiments after the end of ours science club time. I had arranged about 8 jars with varying amounts of water. The kids hit them with sticks and played. Alex said […]
The long drive to Lakes Entrance – camping.
This trip was our longest drive yet. And we won’t be doing it again! On the way to Lakes Entrance, we had planned on a halfway stop, we’d packed a picnic too. However, Alex didn’t make it that far! He was quite panicky, saying that his back was hurting. I think he couldn’t physically not […]
Oh the places we go!
The annual lego exhibition in the city was on again.. Since the Royal Exhibition Building is next to the museum, we visited the discovery centre first. We looked at the taxidermied birds and snakes in particular. Alex recognised one of the live snakes and we got talking to a staff member that showed us bird […]
Apps, theories and intensive swimming!
We uploaded our photos from Serendip and spent some tie with our bird book identifying them. Alex has been showing me some of the apps I’d put on his iPad. A few I have found based on TV programs he likes – Paw PAtrol, Wild Kratts. Others just because. I thought there were apps on […]
Three Little Pigs, Play dates and Junior Rangers
We had tickets with Vio’s sister and kids to go to the Arts Centre to watch 3 Little Pigs. We would ordinarily take the train, but the line has lots of work which means lots of delays. So we drove. There were soi many road works in the city, so fortunately we had left early. […]
Starting 2016
The first few days of 2016 were quiet for us, with some home play. Daniel has been pretend cooking a lot lately, especially when we got to someone else’s house that has a proper kiddie kitchen set up. So I set up a table and some of his mini cook toys and some containers and […]
Reflection of 2015!
So here are some of the great things that we’ve done besides the backyard play, football, karate, ju-jitsu, beach, swimming, zoo, farms, gymnastics, camping, scienceworks, museum, childrens garden, NGV, miniature railways, artplay events, movie watching, pigeon racing, chicken breeding, play dates, park days, fireworks, RAAF museum, water play parks, Bounce (trampoline centre) etc. Brickworks lego expo – Alex […]
Last week of 2015!
Alex was taken to the shopping centre with his Aunt to exchange his christmas present (he already had). This was quite the adventure for him as he got to ride in her new car and spoke about the computers and cameras in it when he got back. Then we went off to co-op and Alex […]