Some learning adventures for January.

William worked on sounds by playing a number of phonics online games.

We watched alot of MythBusters, which everyone loves! Grandma gave the kids season 3. 'The Brown Note' episode was one of the favourites!

We read Tin Tin comics + watched the original cartoons. Planning to see the new motion pic in the next couple of weeks :)

We did pages in our Signpost maths workbooks and Pascal Press handwriting books. Jonah is very pleased that he can almost write in cursive. 

We watch a David Attenborough doco about Humpback Whales. 

We played heaps of Poptropica. Jumpy Bug rules. 

Our resident artist Bill attended a children's art workshop at the Gallery. He did a landscape class and a collage class where he decorated his own chair.

Jonah finished up the Secret Seven series and is now onto reading the Famous Five. He is also reading 2 chapters of Torah daily now.

We did CityScapes using oil pastels on black paper.Thanks to Creative Jewish Mom for the inspiration!

Bridget's novel reads for January : Anastasia, the last Grand Duchess, The red shoe, The complete Peanuts. 1971 to 1972, Little Princess The Secret Garden .

We all watched Robots Treasure Island Bear named Winnie The adventures of Tintin
We also watched Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (the one with Johnny Depp). Bridget in particular was completely intrigued with the special effects and watched the making of the movie a number of times.

We started our Famous Artists study with Picasso.

Everyone is now doing Martial Arts and loving it! (even me!)

The boys looked up and printed out historical flags for the First and Second World Wars in order to make their soldier games more authentic. Here's Bill as an Israeli soldier. He has also appeared as a Saudi, a WW1 German and a WW2 Japanese soldier (Jonah is usually the 'goodie'. At least Bill got to be an Israeli for a day!) 

Phew! that's just some of the things I want to remember for the month of January :)

Lego quest #46 and other things.

This lego quest was a good one for science and technology. We talked about modern marvels of engineering, and looked at a number of websites. This one here has photos of massive bridges, a terrifying rollercoaster, giant sporting stadiums, luxurious hotels and among other things a giant 1km long swimming pool in Chile!  Jonah didn't get around to making something this time, but Bill decided to have a go at building a bridge.

He called it 'The Really Annoying Bridge' because it kept falling down as he was making it. I helped somewhat with this one ;)

 this is a typical carpet scene in our house at the moment.

 I made a batch of playdough for the boys today - no one is ever too old to play with playdough :)

 of course, Jonah made a pistol. 

Dinner at the Dam

watching (from the kid should see this)

NYE fireworks from Balmain