Like the last post alluded to, it's been pretty quiet here over the past two weeks. We've attend only one of the Barefoot Dance Sessions during this time which involved making a class dance using a name move - that is the child says their name while performing an action.
Later in the week, inspired by Daphne the decopatch cat who guards the door of a local craft shop, we tried our hand at decopatch as an afterschool activity. The girls chose their paper, then ripped it up into small pieces. Brushing glue over a small area, the girls carefully pasted on the paper then liberally covered it in glue before repeating the process on the next area. Kept the girls entertained for a long while and their finished letters look great!
As the sun mostly seems to enjoy staying behind the clouds here, we took advantage of one sunny afternoon, taking the bus into town to collect Andy from work, then continue onto University Park purchasing a yummy ice cream from a street vendor on the way. A play with the rocket, followed by some tree climbing was in store before heading home for dinner. A lovely change to our daily routine.
Andy's work has seen him take separate day trips to Cambridge and Southampton. This week it's back again to Cambridge to catch up with people who he missed on his last trip.
Last Wednesday was Katy's sports day at nursery! Was very interested to see what that entailed so turned up at the required time of 2.30pm. The foundation (equivalent to kindy) children all sat to cheer on the nursery children as they did their races. Now 3 and 4 year olds are not know for their ability to follow instruction which made the sports day all that more interesting!
The first race had 4 children who were instructed to run to the fence and back again. Ready, set, go and the two boys were out in the lead. However when the first got to the fence, the second burst into tears for being beaten (despite the race only being half over) and ran over to his mum in the audience followed by the first boy who became upset too!! Both the little girls, with the encouragement of the teachers touched the fence and ran back to the start.
Katy's second race was the good old egg and spoon race. This time however she was racing against Samuel. The race started and it was almost a battle of the snails with both children hardly moving in fear of dropping their eggs. Katy moved forward, then glanced over to Samuel to judge how she was going. Realising she was ever so slightly ahead, she slowed down! As the foundation children cheered and clapped, Katy became even more shy tilting her head onto her shoulder as if trying to hide. What was impressive was she still managed to keep her egg on the spoon the whole way!
All the nursery children were rewarded with a certificate of participation and an icy pole despite it being only 15C!
We met at the Jam Factory, a trendy little restaurant with an old work colleague of Andy's and her partner for dinner during the week. Ella was in heaven when she saw scrambled eggs and smoked salmon on the menu. Katy wasn't as happy with the choices so we decided to see if they could cook some plain pasta with grated cheese on top. She was even more unhappy when the waiter returned to inform us they'd run out of pasta! Eventually we chose ham with chips but it didn't matter as she curled up on the chair sulking only to fall asleep and missed the mains completely! Andy and I enjoyed our beef burgers with melted stilton. We tried to wake Katy up for ice cream without any luck so she missed that too! Unfortunately Katy fell apart when we woke her up to leave and she decided she was hungry......a taxi ride home,a toasted bagel and all was fixed.
With two tired girls, we decided they needed a day off school to recover. They both slept until after 8.30am and spent most of the day in their pj's playing cubby houses, reading books, playing lego, uno and hello kitty memory! The afternoon was taken up with a quick trip to the supermarket, making flapjacks (unsuccessfully though as Robin's are much better according to the girls!) and more playing in their pj's.
It is fathers day this weekend and as I was picking up Ella from school on Friday, I noticed numerous children with homemade fathers day cards. Ella emerged from her class, school bag and jumper in one hand and it the other a bunch of papers. On closer inspection of the paper, there was indeed a card. I asked her about the card. She excitedly showed me her creation* (seen to the right). It seems that she is missing her friends from Aranda Primary School. I did enquire about a father's day card to which she replied 'I was going to make one but I ran out of time...' Andy don't take it too personally I'm sure she still loves you! *Translation - Dear Max, Emma and Toby, Thankyou Toby I love you being so funny. Max I love you for playing with me. Emma I love you being at school. Love from Ella
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