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Sewing with your sister is "sew" much fun!!</div>
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Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-22518025222825640252016-09-23T02:32:00.004-07:002016-09-23T02:32:44.145-07:00Natural Dying for KidsWe have recently had the most amazing time learning all about Natural Dying! The lovey Anita took us through all the processes to make our own unique garments!<br />
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She showed us some of the wonderful things she had dyed and what type of fabric works best. Wool is the SUPREME for dying but silk works just as well and even cotton can take some colour depending on what you have used!<br />
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We all got to collect some of our own natural goodies and then went to work on placing them on pieces of cloth (mostly found at the Op Shop) ready to be wrapped and boiled!<br />
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We were all soooo keen to un-roll them but were advised by Anita to wait a week and see.....<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-11990988493916892092016-08-15T17:38:00.004-07:002016-08-15T17:38:46.795-07:00Nature Weaving Craft {Homeschool group in Poatina}<div style="text-align: center;">
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We recently did some <a href="http://www.craftiments.com/2013/06/NatureWeavingCraftandSolarOvenSmores.html"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><i><b>Nature Weaving</b></i></span></a> with the children in our Homeschooling group. It was a lovely, sunny day and the children LOVED their masterpieces! The little girls and I went collecting the "pieces" to weave, it all looked sooo wonderful! <br />
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Amy taught us all how to do <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_iGkv36dww"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><i><b>square lashing</b></i></span></a> to hold our looms together!</div>
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Now to the fun part!</div>
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Hannah</div>
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Esther</div>
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Sophia's weaving complete with flower bunting!</div>
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River</div>
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Eva</div>
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I really enjoyed seeing how each child made there art and what they liked best to weave with!<br />
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We happily displayed ours along the window, which we found out that Cobweb enjoyed as Nature was brought indoors!!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-9763958461099743522016-08-12T17:24:00.001-07:002016-08-12T17:24:47.112-07:00Yarn Along - arm knitted scarf!It's <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/2016/08/yarn-along-292.html"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><b>Yarn along</b></i></span></a> time, this time I've been busy making warm, toasty scarves for the colder months and thanks to my dear friend in NSW she has been "advertising" hers proudly and other ladies have wanted one too!!<br />
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I've been having a wonderful time putting these together and of course reading to my treasures!This is a great rhyming book with an awesome reminder of not giving up and being true to yourself!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-12449664521118309232016-08-08T15:43:00.000-07:002016-08-28T18:57:09.000-07:00Water study for Kids {part 3}Our last week of the water study here in Poatina saw a field trip to our amazing Sewage Farm! We started at the top of the hill where Hannah told us about the different ways water is collected and natural paths it flows, one way or the other downhill which is called Watershed.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hannah pointing out The tribes - above us on the mountains - Big River
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looked at the dam, talked about swales (ditches on contour that hold water and
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The Poatina dam, complete with wonderful wetlands plants!</div>
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Found some tracks in the wet clay on the way to the sewage farm! </div>
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This is from a Wallaby (we think!?)</div>
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Steve giving us the low down on how the sewage farm works. I<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">t is German designed, gravity fed, passive flow system
that uses beneficial bacteria and water flow to break down waste. The
Hydro put them in at different towns all across Tasmania. This one is capable for managing 3,000 people's "waste." We only have 100 people in the village at the moment!!</span><br />
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The vintage map of the set up!</div>
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So there ends our Water study! We all learnt HEAPS and might I say what a wonderful job <a href="http://rocksaltarts.com/"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><b>Hannah</b></i></span></a> did in informing us all about our water and the wonderful ways God has made things work!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'<br />
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One our weekly trip to the library I found this brand new Eric Carl BOOK!!! Whoo Hoo!! He is a pretty awesome children's book author and I was keen to read this to the little girls.<br />
It even comes with a read-a-long cd (which was still brand new!!) narrated by Stanley Tucci! So with a new book to read and a new weaving project it seemed perfect to join in with the <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/2016/06/yarn-along-286.html"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><b>Yarn Along</b></i></span></a>. I'm not sure if the colours in my recent wall hanging are inspired by the book or the other way around but I do know I'm LOVING the brightness and the fun they both shine!<br />
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What have you been reading this week?<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-31574623977988016402016-06-27T02:49:00.002-07:002016-06-27T02:52:45.474-07:00Water Study for Kids {part 2} Another fun week of looking how the wonder of Water brought us to observe flow and pressure!<br />
Is there better pressure in different parts of the village?? The top of the village faster than the bottom??<br />
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We checked out the main Water valve for the village. Amy demonstrated how valves work with the children and got them to use their arms to show it being turned on and off! <br />
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It was all tested and found that it really didn't vary that much, but there was a certain lack of pressure the further you went down the village!<br />
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Billy had a great time in timing how quickly the bucket filled for the experiments and his Mum had a great time filling them!! Well it looks like she was, though it was a wet job!<br />
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Once the testing was done the older children filled out questions, while the younger ones did some drawings of water and enjoyed talking about all they had learned.<br />
What a fun study this has been!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-60125613085568227102016-06-15T16:32:00.000-07:002016-06-15T16:32:15.626-07:00Yarn Along - Weaving Wall hangingOne of the things I like best in our homeschooling day is our Read-a-loud time! It makes me soo happy to see all the children gathered around attentively listening and, when finishing a chapter, shouting "MORE, MORE!"This is one of Esther's favourite reads! Who doesn't love Noddy!! We found a few Noddy books at the Op-shop, Esther is ALWAYS on the look out for more!<br />
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I've also been working on some Wall hangings with my new fav craft WEAVING!! I received a mini loom for my birthday and I'm having the best time creating different ART with it!!<br />
I'm pretty excited to share this with you and the other clever crafty people at the Yarn Along, which the lovely<a href="http://www.gsheller.com/2016/06/yarn-along-284.html"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><b> Ginny</b></i></span></a> heads up (well at least that is the only place I've seen it!) Her knitting is totally amazing and her wonderful family make her <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><b>blog</b></i></span></a> a MUST to follow!! I wonder if weaving is ok to join in on??? Hmmmmm...<br />
at least it works with yarn!! That after all is the name of the linking fun!<br />
Hope you are having a great week, filled with reading and craft and laughter with your treasures!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-87842191457376724082016-06-03T02:01:00.004-07:002016-06-03T02:01:58.184-07:00Water study for Kids - in PoatinaFor the last few weeks we have had the opportunity to look closely at WATER and all the ways it comes and goes in our Village! The first week we looked at where our water comes from. We drove up the mountain a little and then gathered round to listen to the lovely Hannah. <br />
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We looked at maps learning all about markings of valleys and mountains and contour lines! Then the children demonstrated what that's like with wonderful exercises from
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It was raining the whole time we were out but it was really quite fun to be out and about in it, learning about water! We found the reservoir and the creek and the Weir that helps sift out all the yuckies from our Mountain water!<br />
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The children all had a great time and certainly know a lot more about our water system after our field trip!<br />
Smiles The Torrents' Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-92146019097528270302016-05-18T15:31:00.000-07:002016-05-18T15:31:08.523-07:00Promise with a RainbowThis last week we have seen more than 4 rainbows!! There have been two in particular that have lasted for more than 30 mins and were a complete arch!! They have been totally amazing!!! Hannah and I were driving home from Evandale and there was one that stayed the whole drive! At one stage it looked like we were about to drive under it but as it turned out you actually can't do that, they aren't "permanent" in one spot due to light reflections.... BUT...you probably already knew that!! (I actually did not!!)<br />
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This isn't the best picture of it, taken from the side of the road after we "almost" drove under it. Hannah and I were sooo blessed by this wonder and reminded us of all the promises that God has given us. I've never seen rainbows like the ones we have seen this week since living in Poatina, it's been spectacular!!<br />
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Gorgeous <u>C</u>oral Lichen!! Sometimes called Snow Lichen due to the white colour! </div>
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Playing at the camp site in Blue Lake, Tasmania.</div>
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We did however have an amazing time out in nature and enjoying this Autumn season, excited to go out again and find some of God's precious treasures!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-17605561961306755942016-05-02T20:10:00.002-07:002016-05-02T20:10:41.818-07:00Fossicking for Fossils (Poatina, Tasmania)Recently the homeschool families went on a field trip down to the creek to fossick for some FOSSILS! There are some AMAZING finds in one particular spot and we certainly found some fantastic samples.<br />
Hannah Cooper (from <a href="http://rocksaltarts.com/"><span style="color: #783f04;"><i><b>ROCKsalt Arts</b></i></span></a>) lead the talk and showed the children different rocks and what to look for when searching in God's wonderful world!<br />
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These are dolomite rocks and are very easy to find at the top, surface level of Poatina.</div>
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Wonderful example of smokey quartz lodged in the ground.</div>
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Finding FOSSILS!!!</div>
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Sea shells and what looks like a starfish! AMAZING!!!</div>
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Sophia and Mrs Dougal extracting a rock from the side of the path.... what will be on it??</div>
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Now the rock is out, look what is in/on it.... Lots of delicate shell print fossils!</div>
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What a super cool time of discovery and wonder and learning and finding! I've taken some of the fossils we found to the <a href="http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/qvmag/"><span style="color: #783f04;"><i><b>Queen Victoria Museum</b></i></span></a> (In Launceston) to have them assessed! Can't wait to find out exactly what we found. YAY for fossicking!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-17132067758323781072016-04-18T03:12:00.000-07:002016-04-18T03:12:04.055-07:00Dancing Corn experiment (great for Harvest/Autumn)With the cooler months here and some more fun to be had with corn, the children and I did a <a href="http://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/dancing-corn-thanksgiving-science-activity/"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><i><b>Dancing corn</b></i></span></a> experiment! It was SOOOO successful, we all loved it! SO much so that we demonstrated it at the Children's Home school show and tell Morning tea here in Poatina!<br />
All the directions and what to do are from the link.... give it a go it's a real WINNER!!!<br />
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Everyone took it in turns to stir or add ingredients.</div>
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Is it dancing yet???</div>
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Now to add the vinegar.....</div>
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Can you see the excitement in Sophia's face now that </div>
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something unexpected has began to happen!!</div>
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Now look at the joy! LOVE THIS!! We have clapping!</div>
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We all watched it for ages, little corn kernels dancing around in the jar!</div>
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Gotta have more fun science days like this.... ROLL on the new term!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-61854462990569775702016-04-09T02:48:00.000-07:002016-04-09T02:48:21.976-07:00Wonderful World Wednesday - Deer spotting and a bush walk!I am truly in my happy place when I'm out in nature! Since moving to Poatina there has been many an opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors! This walk was full of wonder as we had a good friend come along with us and he is a keen deer spotter!!<br />
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He told us how deer rub their antlers on young trees to scratch themselves and also to remove the velvet coating that is on their antlers. He spotted quite a few trees that were totally DEER LOVED and could tell us if it was from this season or last when it was used!<br />
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He found some tracks, (though this pic doesn't really show them very well) where there was clear evidence that a doe and her young had been walking together!<br />
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As well as all the deer facts we also found some fossils! WOW these are sooo awesome to come across!! I get SUPER excited when discovering a fossil!! (which I've only ever done since moving here!)<br />
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Sophia liked this rock in particular as it looks like Tassie or a love heart.</div>
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Lastly we found these HUGE animal burrows, they really were HUGE!!! Wombats we were thinking but no sign of "doings" near the entrance made it hard to know for sure.<br />
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So that was our Wonderful World Wednesday, truly wonderful in every way!<br />
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With Autumn well and truly here we have been busy with some seasonal crafts together with the Poatina Homeschooling group.<br />
The very sweet Mabel and her lovely Mummy (Mrs Heather Copper from <a href="http://rocksaltarts.com/"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><i><b>RockSalt Arts</b></i><span style="color: black;">) </span></span></a><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: black;">talked us through making a Corn Husk doll! It was really quite tricky for some but with much determination, and a few melt downs we all ended up with a doll. During the "corn" talk we found out HEAPS of fun facts about corn!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: black;">*each corn silk (that's the hairy bits on the top of the corn) is connected to each kernel! If it isn't pollinated then it wont grow the yummy corn to eat!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: black;">* You can drink corn silk tea!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: black;">* The male part of the flower is at the top of the corn stalk and the female is the corn silks!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: black;">* </span></span>Corn will always have an even number of rows on each cob<br />
* Corn is a cereal crop that is part of the grass family <br />
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Every bodies wonderful Corn Doll creations! </div>
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Looking forward to our next activity together!! Yay for Homeschooling group!<br />
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Easter morning! Photo by Sophia</div>
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What an amazing Easter we have had, our first one in Poatina! Good Friday we headed up to the Arts Center for a Prayer vigil from 6-12pm. The children's time slot was 6-7 were we acted out the some of the Easter story. Hannah ended up playing Jesus.<br />
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"Jesus" saying how one of them would betray him. </div>
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In the garden praying by himself.</div>
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After seeing Pilot (Paul in this case) Jesus had to carry </div>
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His own cross ready to be crucified.</div>
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Then today we were up there again ready for the Easter Sunrise, prayer, story reading, breakie and fellowship with other "villagers" which was truly AWESOME!!!!<br />
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So to you all I say Happy Easter! He IS RISEN!! (Just like the wonderful illustration Hannah drew in the church today!!)<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-54147123670730752772016-03-16T00:00:00.000-07:002016-03-16T00:00:14.401-07:00Wonderful World Wednesday - Huntsmen for DinnerUnlike some bugs/insects (like the slug, moth and spitfire caterpillar), spiders don't actually freak me out so much! Check this out, a spider eating/carrying another spider away!<br />
With some research we think that the spider doing all the work is perhaps a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_spider"><span style="color: #999999;"><i><b>White-tailed spider</b></i></span></a>, of course his dinner is none other than the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider"><span style="color: #999999;"><i><b>Huntsman</b></i></span></a>. <br />
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Check out the hairs on the Huntsman's legs!</div>
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Not sure how long it took for this guy to eat up his find but it was super cool to see!!<br />
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With our recent move it has meant that we are now part of a homeschooling group again! Just gotta say how much I am enjoying it and our dear children are as well!! It's such a blessing to be part of a greater community and learning and laughing and crying together!<br />
I hosted the first group activity with a Snugglepot and Cuddlepie theme! I've been reading the books to Esther and Sapphire each morning and with the stunning yellow and pink gum out in flower is was a prime time to get creative!!! <br />
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To kick start I showed some of the many books written by May Gibbs (author of the Snugglepot and Cuddlepie series) and then I read Snugglepot and Cuddlepie on board the Snag which is an old book from the Young Australia Series (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snugglepot_and_Cuddlepie"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><i><b>here</b></i></span></a>) It includes banksia men, Mrs Snake and of course their dear friend Mr Lizard. The lovely Hannah Cooper had been given a Blue Tongue lizard skin which was shown to the children and my Hannah then showed the snake skin to help tie in the whole story too!! It was wonderful to have these amazing items of nature to show!!<br />
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Next was craft time and painting inspired from May Gibbs illustrations! I made this look-a-like Ragged Blossom as the inspiration and the children ran like wildflower to create their own, wonderful, amazing, fabulous gum babies!!!!<br />
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By the end we even had a Banksia Man made by Mable and each little gum baby wasn't so scared of her at all!!<br />
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YAY for Homeschooling fun together in Poatina!!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-87721963387793621872016-03-08T14:29:00.003-08:002016-03-08T14:29:52.677-08:00Wonderful World Wednesday - Spitfire sawfly (caterpillar)<div style="text-align: center;">
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While walking a few months ago Sophia and I found THIS!!! I was quite intrigued by it as it was one of the larger caterpillars that we have found. Then as we picked it off the footpath with a stick it started oozing this yucky green slimy stuff!! That was pretty gross but still interesting!! <br />
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It wasn't till I got home and we did the usual Google search that I found out EXACTLY what it was!!! A horrible <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitfire_sawfly"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b>Spitfire Sawfly</b></i></span></a>!!! SHUDDER, it makes my skin crawl just thinking about it, believe me I'm not looking too closely to the pictures right now... I HATE these things!!!!<br />
WHY?? do you ask??<br />
Well when I was young we had a small gum tree in our back yard, right at the top of the path. It provided great shade for us as children and we would often sit under it in the Summer! I remember that every Summer there were these YUCKY black caterpillars crawling all over each other in a HUGE ball and (as it would happen) a couple of them fell........<br />
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NOW to make a REAL GOOD story I could say that it fell on ME but to be honest I don't really remember that. I just remember that they are gross, disgusting and totally not something I would normally stop and study to closely (due to memories!!!)<br />
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SO there you have it, check them out if you're not totally YUCKED by them - The Spitfire Sawfly!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-39223018572495299212016-02-15T01:03:00.001-08:002016-02-15T01:03:12.209-08:00Valentine's Day Craft - getting back into the new school year!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Hello there!! WOW what a new year! Happy Valentine's Day to you all celebrating LOVE and relationships and closeness. We had a lovely day yesterday, making it a family affair with me cooking every one's FAV meal - Roast Chicken with Apple Crumble. YUM!! Then my hubbie and I watched a romantic comedy movie and called it a night! Leading up to Valentine's Day the children and I put together a cute door wreath! I found the idea <a href="http://www.designertrapped.com/2015/01/diy-valentines-day-wreath.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>HERE</b></i></span></a> and with the girls help it was made in just an hour-ish.<br />
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Sophia got busy covering our "X" in washi tape (Zeke cut out the hug and kiss for us) and Esther, Sapphire and I covered the "O" in crumbled up cardstock that we had spilt to make it thinner! (we couldn't get any tissue paper at our local shop and time was ticking to get it done!! Always a good idea to make do with what you have!!)<br />
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So with hugs and kisses being sent from our front door (soooo excited that I actually have a front door I can hang stuff off!) we shared the love. Looking forward to sharing more with you all soon, until then<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-55419002568101423952015-12-05T10:53:00.000-08:002015-12-05T10:53:11.112-08:00Day sleepsWe are in the middle of moving RIGHT NOW and it's all going really great!! YAY! So with so much going on I wanted to share with you one of my favourite parts of the day.<br />
Each day sleep that Sapphire has (which isn't every day now..... sad face!!) She has a fluffy companion - Cobweb!!! What a wonderful cat he is!!!! <br />
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It makes me smile ever so much to peak on these two and see them like this! So I thought I'd show you all and make you smile too!!!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-80190914152313296242015-11-07T12:33:00.003-08:002015-11-07T12:33:43.271-08:00Wonderful World Wednesday - Striped LadybirdWhile eating our lunch the other day the girls spotted this Ladybug! Of all the insects around Sapphire is NOT scared of ladybugs! Ants..NO WAY, don't get near me, spiders, even the humble slater and worm she will not touch!!<br />
So with a friendly ladybug to look out Esther and Sapphire were very happy.<br />
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We have found out it is a Striped Ladybird (<i>Micraspis frenata)</i> and it eats grasses and weeds and lays its eggs there too. Check out <a href="http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Striped-Ladybird/Micraspis/frenata.html"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><i><b>THIS</b></i></span></a> information if you'd like to find out more!<br />
How Wonderful Wednesdays are!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-33836446523306403392015-10-22T12:00:00.000-07:002015-10-22T12:00:01.245-07:00Penguin cupcakes {Arctic and Antartica Unit study}As you know I LOVE a theme so when you have such a great unit study like the Arctic and Antartic you have LOADS to play with! So for a Tea Party Thursday treat we made some yummo Penguin Cupcakes we saw HERE.<br />
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Sophia is the queen of creating in the kitchen so with some icing, Oreo's, apricots and silver balls our rookery of penguins were ready to eat!!<br />
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How cute do they look?? They tasted super great too!!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Emperor, King, Gentoo, Chipstrap, African and Fairy</span></div>
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Sapphire loved seeing how "BIG" she was compared to the penguins, Esther found out that she is about the same size as a King Penguin and Hannah, Sophia and Zeke are all taller than an Emperor, though they wouldn't like to actually be standing in a group of them cause they really are pretty big!!<br />
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Hannah set to work making up some labels for each one including weight, height and lifespan.<br />
It was a great exercise for our Antarctica study!!<br />
Smiles The Torrents'Sharnee Torrentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11038484692674086880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6106864932412803626.post-60222111692117671062015-10-14T12:32:00.000-07:002015-10-14T12:32:27.618-07:00The beginning of another termWe kicked started our last term for the year.... can you believe it!!?? WOW term 4!! There has been much going on with our home up for sale and open homes and viewings and holidays and 3 birthdays in there too! <br />
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So it felt really good that the little girls and I had some special
learning time before everyone else was up!! We did some flash cards,
magic 100 words - the Golden words Esther is learning and even a spot of
nature study! I have these cool maths cards that we also had some fun
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Of course the older children did eventually get moving so they were doing their spelling, English, Maths and bible verses. After lunch Esther and Sophia had some media time, they are currently watching The Sleeping Beauty Ballet on You tube. Other than a few "moments" during the day it was a pretty great start to the last term of the year!<br />
Hope your school time is going well, <br />
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