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Being on TV
When you have TV’s, why not make use of them to spread your message?
Grace picked that up from a talk that was given to their class.
Grace’s chocolate factory
We celebrated Grace’s birthday party with a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory party, which was loads of fun, and also lots of fun to prepare for.
Wonka Bar invitations with Golden Tickets
A Willy Wonka cake (with special thanks to Charl for making the hat for us)
Time to sing and blow out the candles
Edible chocolate pot lolly topiaries
Which have sweets hidden under the edible chocolate soil
Making edible bracelets
Super concentration!
Square sweets that look round
Fruit tree
A jelly car, made from a mould that was used at my parties as a little boy
Oompa-loopma-lympics – Oompa loompa’s are short and love chocolate, so they had to run on their knees to fetch chocolate discs
Kate, the fastest thing on two knees!
Chocolate nests with chocolate ganache, edible soil, and orange zest
The Mike Teavee relay race – an egg and spoon race wearing zany glasses, with the egg and spoon being passed through a cardboard TV to the next person (and a huge thank you to Heather for making the awesome TV’s for us)
Market day
Newberry House Montessori had another very successful entrepreneurs day at the Lourensford market this morning, and Grace also had a successful session today.
She ran a, “Ice your own cupcake,” stall, which was very popular and she quickly sold all her stock to make a nice little profit for herself. It is a wonderful opportunity to slowly learn about business – ideas, implementation, turnover, profit, loss, cash floats, dealing with change, and marketing your product.
Finn and Izzy partaking of the wares
Grace’s birthday circle
Grace celebrated her birthday in class today with the rest of the children who have their birthday’s in June. The junior primary birthday circle works a little bit differently from the pre-school. The is no walking around the sun, but they have the opportunity to show some work they are proud of, tell some stories about their life, and show pictures of them at different ages. They also get to nominate three people who to say something positive about them.
Grace, Gemma, Lea and Dean – the June birthday clan
Showing some work she is proud of
A photo walk through her ages (and Eli got to join in too)
The birthday huddle to decide what song they were all going to sing together…the decision? The national anthem.
And then they eat.
Big brother, little brother
Little brothers like to crawl all over bring brothers
I’m not convinced that Adam wanted his face wiped
Rain collecting
It was pouring with rain yesterday, and the kiddies wanted to go outside. Time to suit up in the super awesome rain coats. Off they go and Grace comes back, “I want to collect water so that we don’t have to use so much water so that it is not so expensive.” I then tried to explain how the water is worked on a sliding scale – which it turns out is a bit tricky to explain – so we don’t need to collect water right now, as winter and rain means no watering the garden and very low water use overall. Grace’s response….”I’m going to go collect water so that we don’t have to pay for it.
The three little munchkins
I have the fortune of being able to be the dad to these three munchkins, who I love very much. Thank you for loving me, even when I’m cranky and shouty. You have all changed me for the better.
The love of books
Start ’em young…
I’m really happy that both Grace and Eli enjoy reading, and I’m sure as he grows up Adam will also be a little bookworm. We were at the library this morning, and they both pottered around choosing different books, happy to take as many as they can have. Grace then spent quite a bit of time reading one of her books today, and gave me an overview of the story so far at bed time. I am fascinated at how capable she is with her reading – certainly way beyond the level that we were at her age.