Term 4 week 8 Wednesday

Sketch something that lives in the desert.

We dont have many deserts in New Zealand
so I took the opportunity to tell my home schooler about the one we do have

see websites below
and then i recalled the times I had travelled down it as a child with my parents while on holiday
they told me to be on the watch out for wild boars I dont know if other animals live there or not

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangipo_Desert

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Today we wrote thank you letters to the sponsors of the yatching last week

I wrote the letter draft with him telling me what to write
then he made it into a good copy
then we photocopied the letter and I wrote the address on them and the envelopes

Term 4 Week 8 Monday

Sketch something you wear in the rain.

Read some more of Story of the Nile (History)

Listen to a cd (Dorling Kindersley : ELT Graded) about trees

Term 4 Week 7 Sunday

Helped Anne at the Christmas Expo she was selling her Weird Word Game.  He did lots of phonic work

Term 4 Week 7 Saturday

My Home Schooler got creative

Term 4 Week 7 Friday

Term 4 Week 7 Thursday

Term 4 Week 7 Wednesday

had to capsize their yatchs today

A much better day than yesterday

Term 4 Week 7 Tuesday

It was very very windy today so the children rowed

They had to go from side of the water to the other and get some big wooden blocks and bring them back.  They had 3 to a boat.  Once My Home Schoolers team got over they sent one of their crew to get the block and instead of waiting for him rowed back without him.  I had My Home Schooler on about it when he got back.  He insisted it was the wind LOL (it probably was).  There team came 3rd.

Just before we left he swam in the water to get the blocks that had left behind by the teams they couldnt get across because of the wind.  The tide had come in and the blocks were making their way home.

Term 4 Week 7 Monday

In the afternoon My Home Schooler went Optism yatching

After dinner we made this pumpkin loaf for play group tomorrow

Term 4 Week 6 Friday

This afternoon we went to a home schoolers house for a pre meet before the yatching next week

There My Home Schooler learnt to tie some sailing knots and to rig a yatch