Quick Blog!

The day started with a very flooded cellar - mid calf on my 6' hubby! Lots of floating boxes - plastic and cardboard (even the one full of kids shoes). Even the shelving was floating!! The back yard was a couple of inches deep and the drains were not draining! Quite a bit of my stuff in the cellar got drowned - including some old letters from friends that I kept & some old wildlife magazines that could have come in useful :( Just hoping for some sun now to dry things out a little. Once that drama was over (had to plonk the kids in front of a video while we cleaned up a little to keep them from driving me nuts with lots of questions, like "is the house going to flood?") we got down to the stuff of the day!

More Zoo doings today, although drawing a zoo map was quite difficult. We did it as a team and it's not finished yet. The notebook idea went down well - now to get them to put something in them!! I think tommorrow we might do some of the worksheets - maybe - but they do seem more 'worky' than I really want at this point in time. That said though I think Jacob is actually hungry to get his teeth into a bit of work already.

Pics;
Animal Notebooks


Learning zone - day 2!


If you can see this it's a map of our imaginary zoo


Joel giraffe in the 'africa enclosure'!



I thought some of you might like to see this too! These are all the 'sight' words Joel has learned this year - and he's not allowed to stick on fresh leaves until the word is REALLY learned without trying to sound it out - because it can't be!

Joel's 'Tricky Word' tree in (almost) full bloom