days of

Rehearsing for "Peter and the Wolf"

The making of a castle, for all kinds of beings....dragons, pirates and Star Wars lego. We used old bits of packing foam painted black and grey. We also had tremendous fun (really!) hoovering up the little pills that went all over the kitchen when we cut the foam. This, too is very much a work in progress:


The continued reading of our chosen text, we are so close to being fully accredited, paid up Monsterologists:


And the start of a new passion (one which, if I am honest, gives me a headache - how many small bits? And this, I am told, is an easy starter kit!) There is even a club. Eb is hankering for membership.


There has also been talk of making a TV show. Eb is very into Lego Brickmaster - and talks through the construction of various things, which led Mb to say that he would make a good presenter...they are in discussion about how to progress with this.

Finally, there has been an interest from Od in the Victorians. We are talking aqueducts, public baths, the invention of photography these days. My knowledge is limited, but she is fascinated by the Great Exhibition, including the ongoing debate of whether the idea was Prince Albert's, or Henry Cole. Did you know it was the surplus profit made by the exhibition that funded the start of the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum? There's your useless fact for the day.

It's been an odd start to the year, with all our energies ebbing and flowing at different rates. I've spent a good deal of time cleaning and reorganising, and donating a large amount of board baby books to the charity shops - whilst keeping the most loved, and the damaged to turn into other projects.

We've also ordered Start Writing Amazing Stories and Start Writing Adventure Stories from the library, in the hope it will kick start our creative writing, as we've all been a little bit uninspired in this area for a while.

Mb is also reading more and more, but not stories or books. He likes to use his Phonics cards to make up words and copy them out. We've had these phonics cards kicking about for years, I think they were a gift from some one at some time. He really likes them, as he is constantly amazed how you can change the end of a word and make a new one. His confidence with these is high, but suggest that he reads from a real actual book, and he says he can't do it. Baby steps it is then.