Ciao!!

Today was muddpuddle and the theme was Italy. Including us there were six families so it was quite a quiet session. I think everyone enjoyed themselves-we had lots of activities. I think the highlight, especially for sam, was the volcanos. we did vinegar & bicarbonate of soda volcanos on the basis that Italy has 3 major volcanos. Sam chose blue food coloring for the volcanos so we had lovely blue lava!! Sam's french/italian teacher came along for the last 20 minutes and did songs with the children. It was mainly the younger children who joined in, the other ones were busy helping us tidy up. Sam was using the broom with maniac energy. If only he would do that at home. It was agreed that the theme of the session would be mythical creatures/myths. Sam loves the greek myths so it shouldn't be too difficult for us to find an activity to contribute.

He has decided that our next lapbook is going to be all about oragami-do you think that necessitates a field trip to japan???? if only. We hope to go in 2007 if all goes according to plan. Before we start the oragami one though we had best the Italian one. We only have a few bits left to do and plan to work on it tomorrow morning before our weekly trip to the library.

M is working all weekend so Sam and I will probably just do a bit of this and that. If the weather is bad we will probably have a movie session-though I refuse to watch any more land before time!!