Our Projects and Activities

[cherrycakeandgingerbeer]

I wonder if it might prove useful and inspirational to list and discuss some of the projects, crafts and activities we're currently undertaking, or those our children have particularly enjoyed in the past.

I'll return with more, but the moment one of the things we're doing is a weather station, with some rudimentary equipment, and other related activities. e.g. acid rain testing, clouds.

Cherry, I don't have any yet but I know dd is looking forward to making a working Roman Fort, not that we are HE yet.
Very interested in your weather station, could you perhaps include your method and equipment. I think its a brill idea.

Well, we don't he, but currently, ds is making a roman fort, and a frame in the hope that spiders will make a web in it ( we did this last year, and it was fantastic). Dd is making a picture book for her new cousin, and is writing songs for her band to play in a summer festival in our town.

Yes, I'll return later with a list. Offhand we're also observing weather patterns and wind speeds (with an anemometer), charting clouds, measuring rainfall. That sort of thing.

Thank you v. much. Looking forward to having the time to do all this stuff. It has been school, practice, concerts and shows with little time for learning through play.

ww2projecthe.blogspot.co.uk/

This is a blog of our latest project - just starting to live through World War 2.

I haven't blogged before so it is nothing fancy!!

We have two nature and season tables, which we plan well in advance. We also do smaller displays using dioramas for specific festivals and so on.

Our life cycle project is Silkworms. It's been very interesting, and the first silkworm made its cocoon in a loo roll yesterday, which was tremendously exciting.

today's project appears to be the making of a blue top hat with quite astonishing quantities of cardboard ,sellotape and blue paint.

I don't HE, I'm a childminder. At the moment my children (3 aged 6 and a 2 year old) are doing up the garden. The watched a bit about the Chelsea Flower Show on the news a few weeks ago and asked if they could make their own garden. I provided lots of pots/compost/tools/labels and pens etc and they decided to plant flowers in a bed at the end, and sunflowers and peas in pots. They also made paper flowers and decorated the garden with them. The 2 year old collected some pebbles and shells on the beach and added them too. DS has been making magic potions in some buckets, using collected rain water, to keep the baddies away and protect their garden.

When they are at school, I am going to make a medal for "worlds best gardeners" and award it them when they get home.

We're building a model of the Titanic with a lapbook to go with it. Also Solar System and Human Body, Human Reproduction, learning how electricity works and how to wire a plug [in that order]:)