Thinking of creative ways to help Lilly learn her letter sounds and form. This has mostly involved food and has all been Lani’s idea, she even asked if we could have eggs for lunch and she has never liked them, go figure. Plasticine Dotty Dolls on D Day. Our Letter Land tree. We are in [...]

I don’t like to whinge and complain on here, not that I’m a saint, it’s just that massive emotional purges in public places tend lead right into the inevitable regret that slaps you in the face a day or two later when you re read what you wrote.  So I’m just going to tell you [...]

ME:” Adding with nine is easy to remember because Nine always wants to steal a One from the other number in the sum to turn himself into Ten.” Lani: “Shouldn’t he just borrow it” Me: “Huh?” Lani: “It’s nicer” Me: “Yes it is but Nine isn’t nice, he’s always stealing one from the other number” [...]

Lucy wasn’t in her web this morning, we couldn’t find her for a while mainly because we were looking up. Then I spotted her in amongst the dead leaves in a plant pot under her web. I had wondered a little about her the other day when she moved from her permanent position in the [...]

Alanah’s spider face. Sabrina’s spider face.

Please, as you go about your day tomorrow as you plod through the run of the mill activities that comprise the extent of your daily lives, please pray. As you buzz around getting from one place to the next, as you prepare food, eat food, clean up after food, pray. Pray for little Finn the [...]

We found Lucy on New Years day, I’m thinking she’s a Golden Orb Weaver. She has strung up her massive web in the sun room and we have been studying her daily ever since. In this photo the children are learning that Orb Spiders do not eat noodles. Eli thought he would share his lunch [...]

A little bit of an obsession going on around here. If I let him wear black we are ready in 10 seconds flat if I try and introduce a colour we have hysterics for the rest of the day. I’m not really complaining as far as obsessions go it isn’t the worst, the high pitched [...]

…because she keeps complaining that I’m depriving her of her weekly endorphin hit now that she can’t come here and read about the life of her slightly deranged younger sister. Apparently some of us exist solely to entertain others and its totally unforgivable if we stop doing it, even if the Others know that the [...]