February 20th

This week we have been trying to focus on doing fun things with the children as its the half term holidays.

On Monday we took them to the swimming pool and although the older 2 enjoyed it, my little baby was very cold. His little lips were blue....taking him to Dr to check that out as it happens sometimes when he gets out of the bath too. 

Following the fun at the pool, we took them for lunch at McDonalds.... never a great healthy option but the children love it as a treat.

On Tuesday we did some work on our topic of the week. This week is just week 1 and we have put a display up on the wall which my daughter loves. We are learning about animals. Choosing our favourite animals and talking about them. We are doing animal crafts and colouring and today the younger 2 children each coloured a picture of an animal and the letter relating to that animal... ie R for rabbit. They seemed to enjoy that. 

Today we have made pictures using the letter C for cat... we added a head, ears, legs and tail and they turned out cute. Also looked at French words for animals with my 6 year old and made a sign with paint for the topic display...les animaux. We looked at a board book called Animal Sounds and made the different sounds together and had fun acting like a snail and a frog. 

Tomorrow we are going to be making pictures of sheep using cotton wool balls, we'll be doing some grouping of animals into Farm, Safari and Domestic. We will be looking at patterns on skin and fur and we will make our own animal print patterns.

On Friday we are visiting our local Pets at Home where they have a show and tell information session about one of the animals in the shop. We hope to learn lots about whichever animal they're discussing. After this we'll be making sock animals using pipe cleaners, googley eyes and pom poms for decoration. 

Here is a picture of some of our work on display.. I'm so excited by the response I've had from the children. Everyone seems to be enjoying it.