For the last gazillion years life in Australia has been all about water restrictions, this year the rain came down.

To get into the African groove I decided, before we got into any serious learning per se, to YouTube Africa Dance.

I lead a preschool group at our church called Junior Jivers. It was a big decision for me to take it on, bearing in mind I have four children tagging along with me wherever I go. Four children for whom I bare the sole blame if they grow up to be uneducated heathens.

I have been meaning to write about this for a long time, I just can’t seem to find a gap in the doing things to actually write about the things that we are doing.

Our church has been laying new carpet. This means the biggest cardboard rolls we’ve ever gotten our hands on are just laying around the place and since we are studying the continent of South America, and looking closely at Brazil, when I saw them I immediately thought tree trunks.

I was totally failing at keeping my ASD seven year old in the room long enough to even hear the words we were trying to learn let alone attempt to spell them. I realised that one of the word families we were working on was the `ood` family. Yay I know that family, those weird squishy, tentacle faced, hive brained singing dudes, I know them and better than that Eli does too.

On Wednesday 17 books relinquished their most cherished characters handing them over to the care of excitable youngsters who we subsequently, as any sensible person would, invited around to play. Book Week is a magical day, yes it is a day to celebrate the hard work of talented Authors and Illustrators. A day to appreciate [...]

We have been looking at contractions today, it did not run soothly. Me: “I am going to read a word to you and I want you to tell me what words it is a contraction of. The word is Aren’t” Lillian: “Aunty!”   Me: Can you please say your contractions to me before you go [...]

We got the book The Story of Inventions half way through last term, I wasn’t looking for it, it just popped up as a You May Also Like This suggestion after I bought another book. I don’t usually like being sucked into spending more money but the cover illustrations looked so cute I couldn’t resist. [...]

We have been thinking a lot lately about those shadowy figures who inhabit the distant lands of The Past. And as a way of bringing them alive in our minds I thought we could have a go at living replicating some of their everyday activities. So this is us learning about how people in the past [...]