(sorry it’s not the best photo I can’t figure out how to get a good shot without the glare off the lamination) We are all sick here, well Lani is probably better but the rest of us are still coughing spluttering and going through boxes of tissues faster than the respect leaves a room when [...]

As part of our investigations into healthy food we decided to do a mini unit on food production and help grandma out with her veggie garden. We cleared a patch and under Grandmas direction and planted two different types of potatoes only Lilly insisted on writing out the labels so good luck to grandma figuring [...]

There has been a lot of backyard culinary creativity going on around here. Lani, Eli and Lilly have all been totally hooked on MasterChef and Lani is thrilled that Adam her favourite since about half way through took out the honours last night. She would like to be a fan of Japanese food (which Adam [...]

We are calling today the first day of term 3 although all this really means is that we are back doing regular maths sheets. Learning didn’t stop through the holidays but it evolved a little to be more spontaneous and involved a lot more excursions than we usually fit into a week. The kids are [...]

Guess what we are studying at the moment?   The kids and I visited a police display at a local shopping centre. To be honest I found it a little disappointing and not really worthy of the massive add in the paper. The two police officers just stood there and expected the kids to just [...]