Christmas Craft

Wow, we have had a mad but lovely last week in our house. 
We have decided to incorporate our love of the big red guy to our homeschool this past week and have had a ton of fun doing christmas crafts.

Last week we devoted our school time to Gingerbread :)  After we got our maths lesson out of the way of course ;)

We read the book ' The gingerbread man'  (Reading).  Then we sorted out pictures from the story into the order we read them in the book.

We drew pictures of our family as Gingerbread people... (Art )

And to finish off, we talked about how gingerbread was made, concluding in the building of our new traditon.  The Roycroft gingerbread house! (Maths, science & physics!)  Samantha had a great time helping to measure out the ingredients and make the dough...

Both kids loved the decorating - even if more sweets went in mouths than on the house!

Now I bet you are starting to see why I have been too busy to post much!

We have also completed a nativity - after reading the story of the nativity and watching a great cartoon movie of it online...

And don't forget the new batch of very christmasy peppermint playdough we now have in our house - kids chose colours...(this smells divine!!!)

We took the time to make a family advent calendar.  It is so lovely and it has family activities to do together everyday.   Usually simple, like doing a craft (shock horror) or watching a christmas movie together. Nice because it takes some of the focus off the chocolate and toys the kids get in their own everyday.  Funny that the kids are often more excited about this one!

Tonight is to have a family game night - so i see an epic battle of snap and build a beetle in my future :)

We have also been hard at work studying bubbleology....

and found the time to make some Christmas ornaments... this post makes me look like I am far more organised and motivated than I actually am!!!!


Baking the salt dough we made in the oven....

 Finished products.....

Oh and in there somewhere my daughter decided to become a mechanic apparently!  It was hilarious to hear the conversation that was going as I grabbed the camera.  Samantha was asking Anthony to pass her the wrench and the hammer because his steering was loose!

Along with all this crafty excitement, my daughter has officially graduated from Kindy 'sob, sob'.  It was such a tough day (harder than I thought it would be) and I couldn't stop myself from getting emotional while they were going through her profile book in front of the class at mat time.  She is sad as well, although she does understand that it is time for her to stop going as all her friends are going off to school next year.  So a big thank you to the Whangaparaoa Baptist Kindergarten for taking such good care of her in the past 2 and half years and making her experience so lovely :)

So we are officially on holiday for now (apart from reading), so keep watching out for our adventures over the coming summer, as school never really stops in our house :)

Sterryn