These boots are made for walking!

Today I recieved some lovely,grey ,waterproof, walking boots through the post!
Finally while we are out on our many adventures walking through fields and woods I will have dry comfortable feet !

We took Dotty our 9 month old puppy out to our local park in the sleet and she made a new friend called Toby he is also 9 months old and is a cross between a lurcher and a Jack Russel ,the sizes were a good match and the temperaments worked well too!
We enjoyed observing the squirrels activities as we felt ad that there are only three patches of snow left!

On the home education front: For maths we explored the 24 hour clock today using Conquer Maths for DS and education city and mathletics for DD!
DD used some Singapore books to practice some basic operation skills for maths too!
We did some work on pragraphs a literature study on a book about a white stallion, and then shared a fun poem about the frustrations of leanring to whistle!!!!

Next we continued with our attempt to make our names in hierolglyphics as part of our exploration of egyptian history!This project was inspired as we have been reading through Story of the workd by Susan Wise Bauer.

We did some art work using very high quality colouring pencils and even found time to spring clean away some of Dotty's paw prints from downstairs!
Our next project this afternoon is to make a Laura Ashley fruit Cake . DD is working on the 3d marzipan decorations now!
We are studying some fun books for science including a brilliant one that teaches you symbols to help you remeber the elemnts!On a practical front for physical science we are also using some amazing electronics sets the chidren recieved for Christmas to construct boats,a tank,a robot and various clever circuit things I will post pictures as they are finished off!

Our darling hens layed three eggs today!They are so beautiful and so individual , and for anyone who hasn't had the privilage of eating and egg from such well loved free range oragnic hens ,the texture and flavour is a whole new world!

I will blog again as soon as I can fit it in!