First Day Back

Term started yesterday! Normally we are really sad to see it arrive. We never want to go back work. It wasn't the same this term. We were all excited, Mum had so many interesting things we are going to do.

We started the day with some prayers and the gospel. It was Luka's turn to read!

Then we went into the study. Mum opened up her computer.

"I have found a cool looking maths site," she told us.

We rushed over, interested. Normally we use maths books!

Mum showed us the site. "Brainpop, doesn't that sound good?" she asked.

"Oh yes!" we all agreed.

"What does it mean?" River asked.

"They will teach you so much that your brain will pop," Mum joked.

"Let's see, what about this game?" she asked showing us a games called Coaster Creator.

In it we had to build a roller coaster that would not break or crash or anything like that! We had so much, but we didn't succeed.

We played two other games from Brainpop, they were called Carpenter's Cut (for everyone younger than me and Otis) and A Tangled Web (for me and Otis). In Carpenter's Cut you cut piece of wood (it was a bit easy for me and Otis). A Tangled Web was about getting saving a spiders family! You had to use angles.

 

 

After maths Mum read to us from a book called Hitler's Daughter. It was really exciting! Then Mum started another book called Refuge. It was also really fun! Both books are by Jackie French.

We had morning tea after that! I made milkshakes and we ate chocolate chip muffins that I made the day before.

"Who would like to learn about famous artists?" Mum asked.

"Me!!" We all shouted and rushed back to the computer.

A Beautiful World by Grandma Moses

She showed us another site she had found, Garden of Praise! It doesn't only teach art, but that's what we looked at.

"What looks good?" Mum asked.

"Grandma Moses!" River answered.

We all agreed and spent ages reading about her and her art.

After that we went to a site called Explore Learnning and did some science. After that we started a bit of a documentary about plants.

We took a break to make lunch and ate it over some more of the documentary.

We got the rest of the day off work because of it being first day! I hope the rest of the term is this fun.

-Willow

P.S What was your first day like?

Colour Splash Fun

After Bethany posted some of her wonderful colour splash photos, I wanted to do some myself.

So, after getting permission, I went to Picmonkey with a cool picture and tried it out! It was so much fun. I really enjoyed it. This is what I came out with:

Only left animals coloured

Only left eyes, nose and mouth coloured

 

I will have to do some more! This was so much fun.

-Willow

Louise, the Raven Girl

Ok! So what am I writing about now? Something interesting I hope:)

Right, so last post I told you about my whole family, well I never told you about my awesome cousin, Louise in detail.

She is a new blogger, total of two posts. She is a much better writer than me(she says she isn't though).

Her blog called The Raven Princess! I didn't even know what a raven LOOKS like before I visited her blog. She really loves ravens and other birds like that.

Louise gets on with everyone. She is that sort of person, she just says something nice and she has another friend! She has such a talent for it, I wish I was like that.

Well please visit her blog! I am sure she will visit yours back:)

-Willow

Image: Raven

Cousins, Babies, Family

Last night I got a new cousin, her name is Sophia!

I have quite a lot of cousins so I thought I would right a list of them!

Mum's side:

Auntie Julia and Uncle Kevin:

Greg (18), Pat (16), Joseph(15), Theresa(13), David(12), Paul (11),Carla (10), Mary(8)

Auntie Nancy and Uncle Peter:

Isabel(15), Claire (13), Olivia (12), Ruby (8) and Owen (5)

Dad's side:

Uncle James and Auntie Rose:

Lynda(17), Georgia(16), Alan (12), Benjamin (10)

Auntie Sara and Uncle Steven:

Todd (4)

Auntie Joan and Uncle Anthony:

Louise (14), Elizabeth (9)

See I have a big family! I hope you aren't too baffled.

-Willow

In the Name of River

My sister River, has made herself a blog (with mine and Mum's help). She really proud of it! Here is her first blog post:

All About Me

Name:

River


Age:

Six

Interests:

Read, writing, singing, dancing, playing with my barbies

Favourite Foods:

Chocolate, lollipops, porridge, cake, biscuits

Family:

Dad, Mum, Willow (13), Otis (12), Mack (10), Luka (9), Me

Favourite Outfit:

Jeans, pink tank top, sandals

Favourite Time of Year:

Christmas or my birthday

Hi! Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope you come again soon. I hope to write many more posts. Thanks again!

 

The link to her blog is here: http://katherinemitter.blogspot.com.au/ The name of the blog is In the Name of River. Mum came up with it! River is good at writing for six, isn't she?

 

-Willow

Hair Challenge

Hi! I am making a hair style challenge. The rules are:

1. Do some ones hair in something special (you can do more than one if you want)
2. Post a picture of it of a video on your blog
3. Pass the challenge onto five other people and tell them with a comment on there blog!

Mine:

Thanks Rose! You're a great model. (Rose is one of mum's friend's daughters)

Now to give this to people, who should I chose?

Bethany at Bethany's Cave

Scarlett at Scarlet's Forest

Imogen at Dancing with Dragonflies

Gemma-Rose at Gebbles Writes

Mrs Elvis at Sue Elvis Writes

Off I am to tell everyone about this!

Memories of Geronimo Stilton

When I was little I used to like reading Geronimo Stilton. I had a huge collection of them. I think I owned most of them. I could never get enough.

The Geronimo runs (or was it edits, I forget) a newspaper called the Rodents Gazette. He is a bit of a fraidy-cat (of fraidy-mouse). He never means to get himself into the scraps he does.

The other main characters are Benjamin Stilton, Trap Stilton and Thea Stilton. They are all very different.

Thea is a bit of a daredevil, riding motor bikes and doing all sorts of things. She was my favourite character. (I think there were some books made about her, but I never read any)

The books aren't very long, but they are funny! Geronimo makes up words like Fabumouse (and fraidy-mouse). The titles of the books are interesting too like The Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, I'm Too Fond of My Fur, All Because of a Cup of Tea.

Thinking about me makes to want to read them again, even though I am supposed to be too old for that sort of thing. (Supposed to). I must go and see if I can find any of them!

-Willow

Images: None of them are mine

P.S please visit my other blog. I am having a poll!