Spelt, Oat and Banana Squares
This is loosely based on a Mary Berry recipe. I recently bought her ‘Baking Bible’ which is fabulous, but I tend to fiddle with the recipes if I’m feeding the children, especially in order to reduce...
View ArticleProject 52 #21
Project 52: back after a week’s break! It was a very busy weekend last weekend and I simply ran out of time to do a post, so here is a selection from the last two weeks: Joining in with The Boy …...
View ArticleExploring Glass Beads
I bought some glass beads a while ago. I wanted to give the children an opportunity to explore them in an extended way so I set them out as a provocation; an invitation to play. I decided I would...
View ArticleProject 52 #22
This week and next we are on holiday at Coombe Mill in Cornwall. We came last year and loved it so much we had to come back! It’s such a magical place, it’s amazing to watch the children’s confidence...
View ArticleProject 52: Our Second Week at Coombe Mill
At the beginning of July my computer breathed a shuddering sigh and stopped working. It spent several days in computer hospital and thankfully pulled through, but while all my files and photos were...
View ArticleProject 52 #23
My computer may have been poorly but I’ve still been taking lots of photos of our days! Here is just a selection from the last three weeks while I’ve been unable to blog… Joining in with The Boy and...
View ArticleMaking Chocolate Crispies
Last week we made Chocolate Crispies. Not the healthiest thing in the world, but great for a little bit of independent… …stirring …scooping …sampling …washing up …and eating! Perfectly imperfect. And...
View ArticleProject 52 #24
This week: Joining in with The Boy and Me‘s 365 linky and, for everything outdoors, Country Kids at Coombe Mill.
View ArticleExploring Wild Flowers
Amelie has been fascinated by wild flowers for some time, and The Daddy recently found a book we could use to identify them. He took the children for a walk one morning, and they collected some wild...
View ArticlePodding Broad Beans
I love our veg box at this time of year. It’s overflowing with all sorts of different goodies each week, and not a leek in sight! It’s broad bean season right now and the children love them. And not...
View ArticleProject 52 #26
This week: Joining in with The Boy and Me‘s 365 linky and, for everything outdoors, Country Kids at Coombe Mill.
View ArticleChalks and Water
Sometimes the simplest things can capture children’s interest and lead to extended play and lots of new learning. This was the case recently when I gave Max and Amelie some chunky pavement chalks, a...
View ArticleHow to Raise Live Butterflies
I’ve raised live butterflies many times before, in my teaching days, and I knew it was something I definitely wanted to do when I had children of my own. This summer seemed a perfect time to introduce...
View ArticleExploring the Lifecycle of a Butterfly
The butterfly lifecycle has become our first big project. From the arrival of our caterpillars, through the full lifecycle and after our butterflies had been set free, it’s been a big feature of Max...
View ArticleUsing Real Things in the Home Corner
We’ve had real things in our home corner right from the beginning. I think role play is enhanced by using them, and I’ve always found that children seem to take far more care with things which are...
View ArticleLavender Gloop
We were given some lovely dried lavender recently. We used some to make lavender playdough and this week I decided to add some to our gloop. We’d made some gloop the previous day. We poured lots of...
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