Homeschool Highlights This Week

We had a fun time as usual this week with a variety of activities. Just thought I'd post a few of these to give you guys an idea of what we're getting up to during the week. I've been meaning to do it for aaaages, so let's start now! Xx

Monday: Getting started on our four times tables and skip counting songs. Love "The Four Legged Zoo" on YouTube. After that we went to Osprey House for some great educational stuff about mangroves and rivers, in the beautiful mangrove forest.

Tuesday: Watercolour landscape painting with Jo and our Journey group park play.

Wednesday: TLC co-op sings an amazing four-part harmony song and we learn more about Captain Cook and work on skipping tricks. And off to the beach in the arvo.

Thursday: It's Matt's birthday! We spent the day getting ready then celebrated with the folks for dinner - thanks Nanny! Kees baked the cake by himself and Jimmy decorated it. That's me off the hook for every future birthday 😊

Friday: Some more schoolwork and some crystal-growing science first. Then, to go with our studies on Captain Cook: sailing! And then rugby. And there was lots more! 

Now I'm tired after thinking about all that! I had no idea how much we had done this week. Well, time to get to work planning and preparing next week....

Love Cath xoxo

Our New Caravan! Maiden Voyage to Mapleton

On the weekend, we went to Mapleton to test out our new caravan. We got there at about 3 o'clock and we set up our caravan and Mum and Dad had a cup of tea. We were really excited to have a Milo after the hour and a half trip. We had a lot of Milos on our weekend. We went to a park that had a skate park but we didn't bring our scooters so we pretended we already had scooters and we ran up the jumps and that. 

At night we played we played Uno and Jimmy nearly won and Kase had so many cards because he got heaps of Draw 2 and Draw 4. We had tuna pasta for dinner. Then we had a hot shower and got ready for bed. It was so comfy and cosy in our bed.

The next day we had more Milo and bacon and eggs. After that, we went to play in the leaves and I loved it. Then we went to a boring walk at Kondalilla Falls. The only good part was climbing on the rocks. At least we got to go the pub for lunch. 

And then later, Mum and Dad made us go on another boring walk but we did get to go to the skate park again and we had sausages and coleslaw for dinner. I like Mapleton.

Easter

I hope you had a wonderful Easter! Now that I'm having a little blogging frenzy, I'll post a few photos from our recent Easter which involved lots of cuteness, fun, anxiety about perpetuating a lie (about the Easter bunny) and me trying really hard to be relaxed about the amount of chocolate being consumed. I think I must've had a sort of panicky grimace on my face. And then Matt and me eating lots of chocolate when the kids were in bed. 

Look at these cuties playing hide the eggs and not eating any because they had to wait for Easter. So much joy! And delayed gratification! That's character building, right?

Our decorated Easter table:

Jimmy gets SO into Easter, I just love it.

All the gorgeous cousins:

Our Easter cake. Nanny Alison loved it and raved about it until she found out that Matt had baked it. Then she said, "Well actually, Matt, if I was going to say one thing, it could have been a bit more moist. But other than that you did a good job." 

Love Hearts All Around

I don't like the ants eating the pears but the love heart is cute 😍

Maleny Botanic Gardens and Bird World

We had a gorgeous day out yesterday with homeschooling friends at Maleny. It's a beautiful spot overlooking the Glasshouse Mountains; the view is amazing and I could've spent all day just gazing out to the south. We walked around, chatted and laughed, explored secret gardens and ate some really good scones with jam and cream. Our admission included entry to their giant bird aviary filled with friendly birds from all over the world. I have a hard time seeing birds in cages but this one was pretty big and the birds were absolutely beautiful. We all got pecked but at least not pooped on this time!

Thanks for organising this, Jo 😊 xx

Green Mountains Camping Trip

We went to Green Mountains with Grandma and Grandpa. We camped in a tent. I climbed a humongous strangler fig tree which was hollow. I learnt to tie my own shoelaces. We made friends in the campground and we played hunting bush turkey rump. We went for a long walk to the waterfalls and Grandma gave us a chocolate at the end because we did a very long walk. By Jimmy.

I liked camping at Green Mountains. I liked playing with all the friends we made around the campsite. We saw lots of cute pademelons. They're like these kangaroo type things, just a bit smaller. And we saw a really big brush tail possum just near our tent. A bird flew onto my shoulder and did a poop on my shirt and for Jimmy, it did a poop on his head. I caught a Lamington Spiny Cray with my bare hands and I almost caught an eel but it was too slippery. I'm the one with the red hat. We camped but our Grandma and Grandpa stayed in a hotel room. The camping toilets stunk so I had to wait until 9am so I could use Grandma's toilet. We used their spa and the sauna too. I loved staying up with Dad, having a cup of tea and looking at the stars. I got freaked out climbing up the treetop ladder because it was so high. I dropped a boulder on my toe; it was extremely painful. The bandage on my toe was so big I had to wear Mum's joggers for our bushwalk and I was so embarrassed. At night our tent was cold and stunk like farts and Jimmy weed the bed for another thing, so now Mum wants to get a caravan. By Kees.

Autumnal Toowoomba

Too many photos, I know. But it's been a while, my friends! It was such a beautiful weekend. Xoxo Catherine