A jumble of activities

Over the past week we have taken things a bit easier and not done too much work. The girls both have music exams coming up next week(Eden has two), so a lot of time has just been devoted to that.
Making a playdough car park.
Once it was all set up, Ciara had great fun enjoying it too.
Jude enjoying his hotwheels.
Oh and girls enjoy it too.
The children have enjoyed playing History maker and World explorer on the laptop, Jude really enjoying the History maker as there were games at his level too.
Niamh has been very interested in what the baby will like to look at. I told her that babies normally focus on contrasts first like blacks and whites and then reds and yellows. She drew a big picture with all these colours for the baby, then I suggested she make some pompoms with contrasting colours to hang from the moses basket. So here she is making her first pompom.
The children came across a recipe for moon rocks in their recipe book and wanted to make them for their space theme. Niamh and Ciara ended up doing the work, Niamh is getting really good at measuring out ingredients by herself.

Everyone enjoyed tucking into the finished "rocks".
Eden hasn't done much in her nature book since summer, but she picked it up today and wanted to draw the winter trees in the garden.
Our finished solar system. The balloon in the middle has an led light in but you cannot see that with the flash. I had to explain to the children though that nothing is in the right proportion, we would need a huuuuge box to achieve that so spread out is our solar system, also the planets are not in proportion either, for instance earth can fit inside Jupiter 1000 times. I wonder if any science museum has achieved a proper to scale model of our solar system.

We enjoyed watching the following space movies:
Apollo 13 was to be the third mission to land on the Moon. An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks crippled the spacecraft during flight and the crew were forced to circle the Moon and return to the Earth without landing. Apollo 13 was launched on Saturday, April 11, 1970 at 13:13 CST on a Saturn 5 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Unfortunately there was some swearing and blasphemy in this dvd, the children did not notice the swearing at all, but were aware of the blasphemy,

BBC iplayer on the internet is such a valuable resource for free documentaries and movies of all kinds. I downloaded this one and it was really an eye opener. Footage I had never seen before of the 12 men who have walked on the moon, the video footage and narration by the astronauts was phenomenal as they explained everything they felt and saw.