Treasure map

This was something we did a while ago for Andrew's birthday.  We had got him a canoe as a surprise so we made a treasure map as the canoe was hidden in a friend's field.  We aged the map with tea and scrupling and then I did a pencil outline of the peninsular that we live on.  The children then added details and shading, using symbol ideas from the ordinance survey map.  Lastly we put it in a bottle to wrap up for his birthday.

Table activities

We've been doing quite a lot of activities around the table in the mornings.  The children are really enjoying colouring in at the moment so I drew them an aeroplane to colour and they added birds, clouds and people in the windows.  They then wrote 'Aeroplane to Thailand'.

Keziah played with coloured rice at a friend's house yesterday so she made some with me this morning.  Blue, red and green with food colouring and yellow with turmeric.  We're waiting for it to dry to hide some objects in it and make pictures...

We're going split pin crazy and the children have made several characters this morning!

Keziah had a go at drawing mirror images on some dotted paper.

Outings

We get out and about nearly everyday, visiting all sorts of places and I usually take a photographic record on my phone.  The images don't normally make it off my phone though, so here are a few of what we've been up to recently...

We discovered this walled garden in the Penrose Estate when cycling along the bike trails at Loe Bar.

First trip out on Andrew's canoe, which we got for him as a surprise for his birthday.  Reuben and Keziah both had a go at paddling and Seren slept at the bottom!

Creating a colour wheel with leaves at Glendurgan garden. 

Using oil pastels to make a still life drawing at the Maritime Museum.

Bike maintenance - most days involve getting out on the bikes.

Butterfly collection at Plymouth museum.  We took the train there to meet up with Aunty Zoe and Matt.

Planting trees at Boot up, with SEEDS, an outdoor educational home ed group.

Keziah's tree.  We got drenched but no complaints from anyone!

Number Formation

This term we have been really finding our feet and trying lots of different approaches / activities / groups etc.  We haven't had any trouble filling our time - our weeks have been full and sometimes we've needed to plan in time to just be at home.  I've been able to recently find the time to plan ahead for some morning activities, which the children enjoy doing.  Today we did some activities based around number formation.  This involved different ways of making number shapes - play dough, tracing in salt, cotton bud painting, lining up buttons etc.

Reuben is really into colouring at the moment.

Seren with her treasure basket.

I had printed a world map with a key of 6 different countries.  The children used our big world maps to help them find where the countries were.