Yarn along - Colourful weaving

 

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.
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 Yarn Along. 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!

What have you been reading this week?
Smiles The Torrents'

Water Study for Kids {part 2}

Another fun week of looking how the wonder of Water brought us to observe flow and pressure!
Is there better pressure in different parts of the village?? The top of the village faster than the bottom??

 

 

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!

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!

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!

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.
What a fun study this has been!
Smiles The Torrents'

Yarn Along - Weaving Wall hanging

One 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!

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!!
I'm pretty excited to share this with you and the other clever crafty people at the Yarn Along, which the lovely Ginny 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 blog a MUST to follow!! I wonder if weaving is ok to join in on??? Hmmmmm...
at least it works with yarn!! That after all is the name of the linking fun!
Hope you are having a great week, filled with reading and craft and laughter with your treasures!
Smiles The Torrents'

Water study for Kids - in Poatina

For 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.

 

 

 

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 Amy!!

 

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!

 

 

The children all had a great time and certainly know a lot more about our water system after our field trip!
Smiles The Torrents'