Laminating Day

Today I had a laminating day....

I had my stash of printables all good to go....

Surprisingly, it didn't take as long as I thought it would, but I was solid on getting them cut asap as they came out of the laminator.

Montessori 3 part cards for Multiplication 3x 

Clip cards for Noah in a summer theme.

More clip cards for Noah in a mermaid 10 frame theme.

Geometry shapes clip cards for Charlotte.

More Montessori multiplication 3x - but clip cards this time.

Birds and their eggs.  It's supposed to be 3 part cards, but I decided that we should only cut them to two to begin with.  They are absolutely gorgeous, and I've already had a lot of interest from the children about them.

More counting clip cards for Noah.

And how they look all baggied up when I was done.

Just making the most of the laminating and preschool stuff, since Noah is the last baby - and I won't need them after him.

Are you doing the laminating rounds at your place?  What are you laminating??

Notebooking AO8 This Week

Chloe gave me these note booking pages.

Did you know that if you go looking for a Blue Wren in a field guide you won't find it?  Yep, that was us this morning.  In the end we discovered that they are called:  'Fairy Wrens'.

Here is our first official Australian Bird field guide.  I've been homeschooling for over 20 years and I'm only just getting to purchase a field guide now.  Ridiculous Johnny come late......, but better than never, I suppose.  We haven't had it long - nearly a week.  I will also be on the hunt for more field guides now.  

There are sooooo many illustrations.

And for the longest time - I have had a book called the  'Atlas of Australian Birds' sitting on my shelves, but that's just it, it's just been sitting on the shelves doing absolutely nothing for like, forever.  I had picked it up at a second hand thingy for a bargain price yonks ago thinking that it "might" come handy one day.  However, now that we are getting deeper into Nature Study and Ambleside - I'm super glad I kept it now, it almost ended chopped up for it's pictures and thrown out because of its size.  It's amazing how a book we don't think much about can suddenly turn around and be an absolute gem!

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This week I had her do her Geography on a map of old England - so that when she reads History of England she'd know exactly what and where the places they were talking about were.  

This morning she was reading about Olaf - and he ruled Mercia.  So by having this map available, it helped her to know where abouts in England that he ruled.  Makes it easier and more enjoyable with connections like that.

Art Monday

This week I pretty much just let the girls free style an Art page.

Chloe did hers on a duck.

Hannah did hers on a Macaw { but I have never heard that they were in Tasmania }.

Phebe did hers on a duck too.

Charlotte declined to do Art today.

Nature Study AO8

Here are two of the nature study notebooking pages that Chloe gave me this week:

Basically she's reading a chapter from a book and then doing a notebooking page for them.

This particular one came from 'First Studies in Plant Life'.

This one came from 'Nature Studies in Australia'.

Both books are proving to be awesome books.

Art Monday

Art Monday...

{ By Chloe - 13 }

{ By Hannah - 9 }

Hopefully the other children will have something for me soon.  :)

Bird Jigsaws

This weekend I decided that I wanted to relax a little, so I got out a boxed set of jigsaws on birds and treated myself to some quiet time.

These jigsaws came from K-Mart here in Australia.  There are 500 pieces in total.   It cost $8.00 for the box, pretty good value really, I thought.

On the back of the box it has a picture of all the birds in the pack.  This would make it quite educational - teaching the basic colors of the birds and their names.

I didn't do all of them, but here are the ones that I did do.

Can't wait for my girls to try them out as well.

Very relaxing.  Loved taking some quiet time.

Art Monday - The Pink Cockatoo

This week we went back and visited another Australian Bird for our Art Monday.

{ The Pink Cockatoo }

The books we used to help us....

Charlotte { 6 }

Hannah { 8 }

Chloe { 12 }

Noah { 3 }

Phebe had a little trouble......

and I also did one as well:

Art Monday - Silver Gull

This week we were back to Native Australian Birds with the Silver Gull.

Thanks for visiting.

Art Monday - Eastern Swamp Hen

We are still doing our Native Australian Birds for Nature Study and Art.

{ The Eastern Swamp Hen }

Let's start with a general sketch.

Then we'll give it a little water colour.

Then we'll add some information about our bird.

Then all the other little chookies in the house will do like-wise.

Yes, yes, they will.

They'll remember to write something important. 

And give it their personal touch.

Yes, so that's how this particular little project is coming along.

Don't forget to go back and have a look at our previous Native Birds of Australia.  I've tagged them under these headings:  Art, Australia, Bird.

We also started Native Plants of Australia too...

This one below:  The Common Heath, which is Victoria's floral emblem.

Yes, so that's what we've been doing.

Thanks for visiting.