Week 3

We started our week with a girls night out at Etihad Stadium to see these five lovely boys:

It was so much fun and the atmosphere was terrific! An amazing night out with lots of singing and screaming. All three of us needed Slushies from 7 Eleven afterwards to soothe our throats.

Monday started slowly after our big night out. We began with the next episode of The Magic Schoolbus - The Magic Schoolbus Gets Swamped.  As you can guess it was about swamps and wetlands and how important they are as habitats and as a natural flood control.  The video led on to watching other videos about wetlands on ABC Splash and Study Jams. Moomintroll's interest was piqued by more related videos on Study Jams so we then learned about Biomes. Happily the pdf I had bought on Teachers Pay Teachers had some interactive notebook pages on all the different biomes on Earth.  This pdf is really handy and well worth the $20. Moomintroll seems to enjoy filling in the foldables and decorating them, and I get a kick out of doing all the cutting and pasting. Everybody wins!

I bought another pdf as well for maths and we've been using the printables in Moomintroll's maths notebook to reinforce her times tables work as well as introduce the concept of division and inverse operations.  So far so good.

For our weekly Geography walk we visited The Domain Wetlands in nearby Templestowe. Here we also did a little science experiment which involved observing the wetland habitat, collecting pond water for our Pond in a Jar (from 365 Science Experiments) and getting wet, soggy shoes.  Moomintroll is the photographer on our walks and she does a great job of cropping and enhancing her pictures once we get home.

Manna Gums

young curious kangaroo

wetlands

wetlands

pretty plant

Pond in a Jar

weird burnt tree

Mullum Mullum Creek

In my quest for a more exciting English curriculum I have subscribed to Education.com.  This site has a wealth of information on all topics for all year levels and Moonintroll really seems to enjoy these as well.  This week she did a reading/comprehension exercise on The Happy Prince,  read and analyzed Jabberwocky, and learned about contractions (the grammar kind, not the other kind!).
Books we're reading are still the same as last week - Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, various Mr Men books, Wind in the Willows.

Both girls are continuing with Just Brass this year.  They are working on Thriller at the moment!

The Snork Maiden had another happy week at school. She aced her English test, did heaps of maths homework and found a new friend to walk home with who lives just 2 streets away!