It has been a busy, social, splash-parky week! We had their friends round or visited their friends almost every day, all day! We are glad of a quiet Friday to wind down from it all.
We had their friends Isla and Harlow over for a few hours, I took them all shopping, they all had a bag each to pack at the end and enjoyed getting things off the shelves to put in the trolley and putting things on the conveyor belt. Here they are in cahoots under the packing shelf at Lidl.
I took them all down to Leighton Buzzard splash park. They were in the water about 2 hours and then at the playground about an hour too. Lots of home educating families were there, so loads of their friends were there. Here are some of them in the water.
Miles took his bike in the water.
Caden at the edge of the giant picnic with his koala towel. Miles in the pirate towel sat down.
Time at the playground, Miles balances...
On the seesaw..
Climbing on the pyramid with Harlow....
They had a major swing about on the hammock swing...
Another day we did a science experiment intended to show how the surfactants in washing up liquid disperse the fat molecules (split the fat) in the milk across the plate so you can create beautiful patterns with food colouring. There is some interesting science behind this which is a bit advanced for the kids right now but if you are interested you can read the science bit below. It is good to see the colours shoot to the edge of the plate and observe that you can only perform the experiment once.
Miles was quite happy playing with the toy canal in the sun while we were doing the experiment.
We went back to the splash park again with different friends. They love it so much there. It was so sunny too.
It was their Dad's birthday this week so I had them making lots of plans for the things they would make and do for him. We have made a nice photo up for him to receive from them and they made him cards and a 'minibeast map'.
Oh and they drew on the walls..... (!)
We also found a really unusual caterpillar on the pavement.
Every time Caden went to pick it up, it sort of attacked him (though it couldn't really hurt him), it made him jump and drop it. Miles touched it a couple of times too.
Eventually Caden overcame his fear of it and picked it up, he carried it to a safe place in the bushes and threw it in.
We've made more progress on maths this week. Caden has been doing money, adding coins, working out which coins he needs to choose to make a certain figure and doing the same with notes too. It is all coming along nicely... we also hope to finish the BFG this afternoon finally.
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