Orienteering and willow planting

The girls and I weren't feeling well, so my mom came over and took the boys to a home ed day at a local nature reserve.
They started with orienteering...

and then moved on to cutting the willow for planting.

Planting the willow.

They even bought some willow home for basket making!

Friends and science

We went walking round the reservoir with some friends. Well we didn't quite get all the way round the reservoir, but at least the kids got some fresh air and exercise.
It was so lovely to see some sun after all these months of winter.

One of the few shots of Kiki walking - I had to carry her most of the way! We had all been suffering from some kind of virus and weren't on top form.

Cheeky faces!

Lunch time!

We collected water from different sources to test the ph levels. We used water from friend's house, our taps, the fish tank, reservoir and the horse trough.

What they found was that all the water round here is neutral veering more to the alkaline. The kids then dipped some of the testing paper into some lemon juice just to show the difference.

We made some goo out of corn flour and water. It mimics quicksand. I think that we need to go back and do some more work on molecules for them to understand this properly.

The kids got carried away and added way too much water. Another experiment I guess about increasing the viscosity!

Going bug hunting. It must be getting warmer because the kids came back with quite a few for their insect collection. Champ also found some eggs.

Fun in the front garden.

Ticklish wagon

We were given this wagon by Alex. Thank You! The kids love it. It has been a bed for toys, queens carriage, chariot, shopping trolley...
Princess Kiki

The kids liked to pretend that Kiki was the queen who they had to cart round the place. Kiki played along beautifully, even bossing the others around!

The kids made some lovely Easter biscuits. I forgot to take some pics just after they came out of the oven, and of course, they didn't last long!

Being tickled by Dad!

Fighting back...

Getting ready...

aaaahhhh

tickles times four!

The girls relaxing.

Champ and Boo decided to make peg bugs. I have no wooden pegs left in the house that don't now have legs :o)

Stop Motion

Champ and Boo came downstairs one morning last week and showed us these pictures. They had made their first stop motion "film". We just need to find the software to put the pictures on to make it seem real, but if you scroll quickly down the page, you can get the idea.