Oh yeah! I have 3 Children!

So a post from 'Mom Life Keeping It Real popped up in my Facebook News Feed. It had 33 photos of homeschooling activities and I recommend taking a look!

I plan on trying out a few and they are fun, seen suit for the ages of my children and also easy to set up.

So I decided to start with Mr L and his colours. He seems to be last on the list of planning activities for at the moment.

I have always felt pressure to teach them things when the were toddlers and quite often find myself talking to a 2 year old about shapes, colours, feelings and trying to promote new language all at once. So I loved the simplicity of this colour activity. In the interest of full disclosure, I did pick the best video!

Palm Sunday

For those celebrating Palm Sunday tomorrow, this is a lovely ideas shared by some of my teaching colleges.

It was a great way to start a conversation about Palm Sunday and Holy Week.

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At Least We Are Healthy and Safe!

So the kids loved the treasure hunt so much they wanted to go again! 

Miss A suggested we make cupcakes before we go so we could ice them when we got home. I agreed it was a great idea! 

So after a delightful bonding session we put the cupcakes in the oven. Then the printer ran out of toner and wouldn't the treasure hunt sheets. This wasn't that bad as I printed extra copies yesterday. However they were on orange paper and Mr I wanted them on green! Miss A didn't want to wear a white T-shirt with her bee costume and while I was dealing with them the cupcakes burned and Mr L draw on the wall. 

Anyway we iced the cupcakes, changed the T-shirt and at least the wall now matches the couch!

Treasure Hunt

Today we went on a neighbourhood treasure hunt. It made our daily walk much more enjoyable for the kids. Even 2 year old Mr L got involved pointing out cars and buses as well as "tweet tweets" and "woof woofs"!

Here is the link to my Treasure Hunt but I'm sure there are lots of clever Mummies who could make their own. Share it if you do!

Download the Treasure Hunt worksheet

Chalk Obstacle Course

Today I draw and Obstacle Course with chalk. I gave the kids tasks such as run, do star jumps, hop and skip. They did these and then took turns at following each other and making up their own exercises. 

I let them get bored!

Something I always believed in but needed reminding of at this time. I have been doing lots of activities with my kids, but I think it is important to let them get bored and allow their imagination and creativity show.

For Mr I, this is hard are he likes structure, routine and knowing what comes next!

For Miss A it gives her a chance to express her creativity.

She asked if she could make a rainbow out of beads. The result was a rainbow with clouds and sky!

The boxes I brought the shopping home in were quickly turned into 2 school buses for her toys, complete with number plates!

Mr I was super excited about completing his jigsaw puzzles and I got some work done! A good day all round.

Mr I asked to also make a bead creation but needed ideas so we searched 'Minecraft Bead Creations' on Google and this was the result. 

He also asked me if I could draw dinosaurs and got cross when i suggested he have a go. He needs to know what it will look like in the end. So I thought we would use the shadow drawing activity I saw on Facebok. Simply place your animals in front of a sunny window and trace the shadow.


We also love colouring in at this house and today we coloured with a difference! Coloring with nail palish! Now I'm hiding it so they don't do it unsupervised!

I hate Writing Mum!

Mr I and, in my experience quite a few boys, dislike writing. It can be really scary for children. There is the content, spelling and handwriting and punctuation all to think about at the same time. It would be like us being given a blank sheet of paper and asked to paint a landscape! 

Short sharp activities broken done into steps can help.

We have written a recount, shopping list, card and letter.