Our Grandma and Grandad came to stay at the weekend and they are really good at making stuff with us. We made some trains out of old cardboard boxes and the middle bits from toilet rolls. Today we wanted to make a track for them to run on and some buildings and other things the [...]
We went on a lovely Autumn walk today and found some amazing fungus on a tree. We wondered if anyone knows what it is? Here’s a close up! We’ve also been making Autumn masks. We stuck leaves and leaf rubbings onto masks we cut from card. They are tied at the back with string.
We decided to learn a bit about Japan today. We’ve wanted to make sushi for ages so we went to the shops to get some sushi rice and special seaweed that goes around the sushi rolls. Once we’d been to the shops we thought about what our restaurant, The Wooden Spoon, would be called in [...]
Some of our friends have moved to a farm and we went to visit them. They have lots of sheep and some other animals too. First we went to see the rabbit. We gave him some apples to eat. Then we went to see some animals we’d never seen before, some alpacas! They were very [...]
We had some friends coming over for dinner so we decided that we would make our house into a restaurant. The first thing we did was make ourselves some chefs’ hats. Once we were chefs we were ready to cook the dinner. We decided to make a beef casserole. We started by peeling some vegetables. [...]
We went to the Museum of Somerset again today and had a look in the room that’s all about military things like the army and wars. There are lots of army clothes you can try on. Now we don’t go to school we don’t have to wear uniform any more but even when we did, [...]
We had a really fun day again with our home education group friends. We started the day indoors making things out of autumny bits and pieces we had all collected. We had conkers, acorns, fir cones, beech nuts, twigs and sycamore seeds. Everyone made something different and we chose to make little figures. We picked [...]
We wanted to know what all the trees are called in the park where we go to the playground, so we decided to find out! We looked on the internet and found some really good pages to print out to help us identify all the trees. We found a good one here. When we got [...]