11yo’s drawing of Sans from Undertale on the whiteboard JJ and 7yo playing Shadows Over Camelot. 11yo and 9yo are off frame waiting for their turn. I’m obviously taking the photo. The game is fun and a little bit involved and is cooperative rather than competitive (unless someone turns out to be the traitor!). SciTech did a class based on The Lorax and included experimenting with water saving crystals and making a paper pot. 7yo was happy as he got to partner up with his bestie 7yo digging up fossils at SciTech’s dinosaur exhibit 7yo driving what I think is a Sphero drone with an iPad at Scitech His work was ‘bein’ a BOSS’ apparently. He also styled his hair with water 7yo got some peas and instructions for an experiment from the Lorax class. The pea near the green stick was soaked in water prior to planting and the pea near the blue stick hasn’t. The soaked pea took so long to sprout compared to the unsoaked one that 7yo was sure it had ‘drownded’. He only needed a couple of reminders to water them every few days and has been diligently doing it on his own ever since The kids attempted to design and build towers that would withstand an earthquake. These ones didn’t work 9yo’s building design withstood the earthquake

Artificial rock climbing at the PCYC fundraiser. Didn’t get a lot of photos as we got rained out! 11yo went to a birthday party for one of his team mates and won a dancing competition not because he’s any good at dancing but because he was full of confidence and energetically went at it where a lot of his friends were too scared to even get on the floor.

7yo got one of those hatching dinosaur eggs for his birthday. The fully “grown” thing is now sitting on his shelf with all his other dinosaurs.

We took a fishing trip to Jurien but once again were not able to go out in the boat due to the howling winds. The boys went fishing off the jetty, JJ caught a blowfish and the same seafull four times. I caught some godrays and the kids checked out a sundial. There wasn’t enough sun to see what time the sundial thought it was, 11yo tried to take a guess based on the position of the sun while explaining how the sundial worked to 6yo.

Our year started fantastically with being able to go to a performance of The Lion King Broadway Musical courtesy of mother in law who bought us tickets. We were up in the nosebleed section so couldn’t see fine details of costumes or clear facial expressions but got an awesome view of everything going on on the stage and around the theatre (as the performers didn’t restrict themselves to the stage).

December is always an odd time of year due to having to wind up kids activities, business for the year and organising whatever is going on for Christmas so I rarely have much homeschooly to write about. The kids had their gymnastics end of year performance, the theme was “Back to the 80s”. Costumes were fantastic, the performances were great and I completely failed at taking any good photos. The Christmas party followed directly afterwards including a visit from Santa.

Might try to do these as monthly things rather than semi-random ones. Firstly, we are chick central again. About three clutches with 7-10 chicks in each one. Chappie’s family want some of the naked necks. This was the first lot. Idiot hen had gone next door to brood, kids heard the cheeping and went next door to investigate. Neighbour was astonished as she hadn’t even realised they were there behind the shed, and just as well they’d only hatched that morning as she’d been dogsitting and the dog had left earlier in the day.

Another collection of stuff that I usually don’t get around to posting at the time either due to being in the middle of something or because it was a little thing. Banana and toothpick sculpture made by 10yo Apple and toothpick sculpture made by 10yo Doll made out of a spoon, tissue paper, pipe cleaner and wool by 8yo Paper habitat world for plastic animals by 8yo. Served as a ‘board’ for ecosystem based games that all the kids made up for a couple of days 6yo made a hammerhead shark out of boxes After watching the movie ‘Paper Planes’, 10yo and 8yo looked up and folded some of their own. Most of them flew all right though one of 10yo’s creations that he made up flew like a rock 6yo doing Math Seeds on his iPad

Photos from the last couple of weeks. After 10yo had sent off an enquiry email to WAFFS, they put is in contact with a lovely lady in the area who let us play with her ferrets and answered all the questions we had and then said we should head up to the AGM the following day if we didn’t have any plans as people brought their ferrets to these things. We didn’t have anything on that morning (unfortunately parents in law were off travelling so we couldn’t visit them while we were in the area) so we trotted along to go have a look.

The City of Gosnells recently had its Homegrown Festival, but due to many clashes of things the only thing we ended up making was the Liddelow Homestead Open Day. It has a really cool corridor. There was also a stove which the kids didn’t initially recognise as such, we spent a few minutes talking about what it might be before I told them what it was, and we then discussed how one might control the temperature of the stove when cooking.