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| Tahlia in her pretty dress |
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| Tahlia loves her jewellery |
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| They did some chores this morning, including sorting the dry washing |
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| Time for maths |
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| We headed out for a rainbow walk |
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| There were a few particularly interesting specimens |
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| A fun trip to the bottle bank |
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| Tahlia set up a shop for us all to buy things |
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| Making Ptolemy the shopkeeper; for some reason that involved wearing a shiny headband |
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| We watched Julia Donaldson's 'The Snail and the Whale', ready for our activities |
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| We used a trundle wheel to measure out the length of a blue whale and marked it with chalk |
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| It was a bit more than the width of three houses |
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| From one end to the other |
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| We had some timed running races from one end of the whale to the other; Daddy was the winner |
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| Tahlia is very quick on her feet; she was close behind Zachary |
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| Jory's runs for it |
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| We drew the size of a blue whale's eye, which is surprisingly small (6 in) considering its size; we learnt that blue whales mostly use their hearing to get around so don't need big eyes |
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| We measured and the drew the size of a blue whale's blowhole |
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| Next, we measured the width of a blue whale's tail, which involved walking into the road (which fortunately is a lot quieter than usual) |
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| Mummy and Tahlia standing to show the width of a blue whale's tail |
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| Ptolemy loved pushing the trundle wheel along |
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| We measured the lengths of different cars to see which would best represent a blue whale's heart |
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| This was the winner |
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| Finally, we measured the size of a blue whale's artery and walked along it |
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| To continue our Julia Donaldson themed activities, after watching 'Room on the Broom' (we couldn't find our book unfortunately), we started working on the egg enriched dough that we made yesterday |
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| The main character in the story has a plait in her hair, so we worked on a dough plait |
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| They began by shaping the dough into three long strands |
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| Some made their's longer than others so we had to readjust a little |
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| Tying our plait |
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| Finishing it off ready for baking |
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| Next we made witches hats from the story |
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| Sprinkles on the top |
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| Finished hats |
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| We enjoyed our plaited bread (although it lost a bit of definition, it tasted good), with sausages and salad for our tea |
That all looked very Exciting love Jacqui ♥️
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