Blog on H.E.

Motorised spider with gears and working legs made by Timothea… 

Rebekah’s helicopter and Susanna’s motorbike completed…

Making the helicopter…

Naomi made a car that goes forwards till it hits a wall then goes backwards until it hits a far wall using a push-pull switch…

Making the above models is complicated with lots of trays of peices and instructions needed…

Rebekah’s motorbike…

Timothea’s homemade birthday card for Mummy…

All busy with birthday ideas…

Rebekah’s acrylic on canvas painting, took several days to do each colour seperately…

A mathematical game of Blockus…

Family games at Christmas… 

Busy doing arts and crafts…

Naomi painting her 3d fish…

Rebekah starting her acrylic on canvas…

Christmas dinner at the Haley’s…

A quick lesson in static electricity using balloons…

Our Christmas tree…

Making craft items for Christmas…

Long walk on a bitterly cold day…

So cold no wanted to hang around long enough to smile…

We are all learning; Deborah is now walking…

Included this picture because although they were restricted to using the larger Primo bricks the older girls designed a computer including LCD screen, printer and power supply; I liked the way they had thought through all the components needed for a computer to function:

We organised a two day trip plus overnight stay to coincide with the fireworks night. Very wet on the first day…

Miniland with it’s 35 miliion lego bricks was a big hit…

It did stop raining some of the time:

Getting ready for the best fireworks we have ever seen…

Saved our pennies and used every voucher scheme we could get our hands on to buy year passes so we are going back in the spring…

Also renewed our Corinium Museum passes:

Another recent addition to our resources are Clicker5 and some of it’s Find and Write About titles along with a French Package. These have been big hits, in use everyday for various subjects and projects they have been doing.

Here is Timothea’s first time using Clicker5…

Also been enjoying using various musical intruments, pictured below as well as recorders…

Went on a nature walk one dry day to collect different seeds, nuts and fruits from a local deciduous wood…

 We visited the Lego exhibition at the Steam Museum in Swindon…

They spent ages watching all the trains and looking at the fine detail.

A lot of bricks to make this:

Spent some time designing on paper and then making different musical instruments from cereal boxes and margerine tubs filled with things like rice and pasta:

Here is one of the stringed instruments…