What a week!

Dotty has been very busy this week she has been for some wonderful walks and seen some of her favourite friends there was Oscar a wonderful working cocker spaniel who has a lovely golden coat!
Black Jack who is an ace at catching a ball we think he could be a flyball champ Herby is a wonderful Basset Hound!

This week the children had a lifeskills week which incorpaorates health and social education.
We did some experiment to find the most efficient ways to wash our hands,investigated some of the germs we need to remove from our hands,researched various amazing sites in the web and later in the week the children have prepared posters for every sink in our home to remind people of the correct technique.
The children explored the who,why,where ,when, of washing there hands.
The children also learnt about how to make simple healthy lunches this week, including open sandwiches, nan bread veggies and humous, beand son toast, and freshly home made chicken noodle soup.

We have decided to continue this as the children are really enjoying leanrimng about how to makethe food they are eating and are adding their own secret ingredients to enhance the health content of their food.
They are learning how to include appropriate quantitiess of vegetables complex carbohydrates and protein.
Both children are now takinga n active role in choosing a minimum of five a day including small portions of raw veg and fresh fruit with each meal or snack.
The children had a play date with our home educating friends who have been in Malaysia for several months so now dd is the proud owner of a chineese dress !
We spent time developing our drawing skills practicing drawing pictures of rabbits !

We learnt a sad lesson on Thursday when ds ran in to say that he had found queenie our rescued ex battery hen dead in the coup this mourning.
There were many tears but there was such thankfulness for every happy moment we shared with Queenie who loved cuddles and had such a placid nature!
We had amazing conversations about whether animals have souls it was such a life lesson day.

DD has speant lots of time practicing French and is really enjoying exploring a new language she is using a great book ,flash cards web sites etc and is now exploring the verbs as well as conversation work and vocabulary ! So much motivation!

DS is enjoying exploring alot of ww2 and is also busy working on several electronics kits .
DD has been designing her own Arabian princess dressing up out fit she is desigining it herself and sewing it with a little support from me!

This week has been eventful but worth while.
DD loved her modern dance class tonight tommorow will be a very special day as DH is taking over caring over our children while I go to a day for me and some friends!Go Daddy day!
I am so thankful for the way our family is supporting one another!