Day Eight of LOCKDOWN!

We've been getting up a little later the past few days as we're slowly adjusting to the clocks going forward. Jory has been endeavouring to keep us on our toes with tidying lately: he enjoys jigsaw puzzles, so every day he has been working through his entire collection, and leaving the pieces everywhere! We no longer have complete puzzles but he still enjoys them anyway.

A bit of dressing up

After PE with Joe, we enjoyed catching up with our friends from one of the home ed groups that we normally attend; about 6 families made it onto a conference call this time, and the kids loved seeing some familiar faces.

Jory is building a garden -his favourite thing to do with Lego (we keep the Lego in the loft room to avoid mixing with other toys)

Tahlia loves stencils -here she is drawing a princess with a stencilled dress

We also did a Mystery Science Experiment - this involves watching a lesson online, then doing the related experiment.

Today, it was looking at how rainbows are made (Tahlia chose it); we let the sun shine through a glass of water and made rainbows on a piece of paper

Stirring to improve the look of the rainbow (it worked better when we lifted the cup)

Tahlia drawing what she saw on the paper

Jory's public toilets and aeroplanes 'artwork'

Her finished rainbow

After doing some maths, Zachary read some more of his Ancient Greece books...

Tales of the Odyssey

A more light-hearted version

Zachary and Tahlia took part in an indoor scavenger hunt

Zachary won

Ptolemy watered the plants for us

We needed some supplies in Aldi (especially the things they didn't have in stock last time). Alas, still no pasta, flour or yeast!

After the kids had a bath, Mummy sent them downstairs to start tidying (while she sorted some things out upstairs), as the house was a mess. On her return downstairs, she realised she'd made a big mistake...

Why tidy when we can open up this bean bag and play with all the tiny balls?

It wasn't only the playroom, these balls seem to have travelled all around the house!

After much tidying this evening, we decided we couldn't face any more, so will finish it off tomorrow...