This week we have been staying in Derbyshire with Growler, Digger and Buster. On sunday we went for a circular walk from where we were staying to Peter’s Stone. We found are first ever Geocache! The next day we went to Bakewell. Dad and Gertie went on a secret mission to find another Geocache! We had…
Hull Blade
On the 17th of January we went to see the big Blade in Hull. When we got there it was massive it was much bigger than I thought it would be. The Blade was 117 paces long! We all touched it. It is hard to imagine the size of a wind turbine with three blades and the pole. The reason…
Caterpillers
Down at the bottom of the garden where the neglected vegetable patch grows among the runner bean and tomatoes we found a gaggle of hairy caterpillars eating our nasturtium plants!! So after having words with them we decided to take a some hostage in return for teaching us about the life cycle of a caterpillar….
Apple Day
We went to The Acorns in North Shropshire to see Roz and Phil to pick lots and lots of apples from the orchard. After picking and tasting lots of different varieties of apple with help from the tip up golf buggy we used the apple press to make apple juice and some cider! We then…
Spin Splat o Matic
The girls got thoroughly stuck in at helping with the Spin Splat O Matic at the Sin Eater Festival in Ratlinghope. A pedal powered paint machine.
Tasty
Gertie is turning into a very independent and brilliant little cook. Cheese and chive bread and seriously yummy rhubarb crumble cake. I only helped to eat…
Boats 1
A rainy walk down to our special spot to float some home made boats! Lots of brilliant tree and plant I.D going on too.
Dawn Chorus Walk
One May morning at the crack of sparrows fart we woke up whilst still dark about 4.30 am. A time that we never see or in fact I knew existed. We made our way up to the Stiperstones pub for a dawn chorus walk. Pete Carty from the National Trust gave us a fabulous insight…
String Art
We had lots of fun doing our hand drawn mandalas we decided to to explore it a stage further and turn it into string art. It involved a home made compass with lots of measuring and division to get all of the nails in the right spot. Then Gertie spend the best part of the…
This is not maths…
Parabolic curves, diabolic shapes, tessellation, flextangles, symmetry and much more. Discovering that maths can be creative and dare I say fun! Gertie has known this all along but it has taken me about 30 years to unschool myself and rediscover maths in a new light. Try this one out http://babbledabbledo.com/paper-toys-flextangles/ This is not a maths Book…
Dyeing
We were really inspired at our lovely home ed group at Rushbury this week. A great introduction to dyeing with natural materials. We will certainly be trying this out again. The photos below are what we captured from the group. We are really happy with the results.
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