Our Autumn Theme

Now we are back to what I would call a normal day we got in quite a lot of stuff.

Some more work done in the boys leaf books started our morning off, leaf facts and diagrams covers science. Some leaf symmetry for a bit of maths. Drawing and colouring for art and writing for English. Amazing how many subjects can be covered using leafs. That completes their books.

After that they decided they wanted to search for minerals albeit replica minerals and not quite following the autumn theme in one of those digging plaster kits. Lead onto a discussion about obsidian and how it is formed.

'H' had a go at a leaf identifying quiz http://www.naturedetectives.org.uk/play/quiz/leaves from the woodland trust. He got all but one correct using his Idial helped though!


'C' took quite a bit longer to dig out his minerals, while 'M' done lots of cutting and sticking,

'H' desperately wanted to make more fimo items so he made a leaf keyring not forgetting to discuss all the parts of the leaf that we had learnt about earlier.

We started off what we hope to be our autumn wall display.

After lunch we went down to the woods and spent a good while looking for horse chestnuts, followed by picking leaves up to make our leaf collage, think it started off with the intention of being a flower but we all agreed it looked more like a tree.

Picked up some shopping on the way home in time for dinner and swimming lessons after. Not mentioning that just before swimming our lovely cat got stuck up a tree and we attempted for an hour to get her down before dad came home and climbed the tree for us! Luckily they made it to swimming on time and I suppose it was a useful demonstration on how to rescue a kitten.