Gabriel has been busy making robots, controlled by spiders, after watching some Beastie Boy film clips with us last week. Damien and I were doing a bit of musical reminiscing after reading that one of them had recently died, and Gabriel found them inspiring for lego models.
Evolving into a flying robot.
Willow decided to redraw the Fibonacci curve to make it more flowing.
Amongst other projects in her last block on Ancient history, Willow made a lego model of one of Leonardo's machines.
Willow will soon be off for a week in Adelaide, to participate in a flute concert, and catch up with family. Plus we've bought tickets to the ballet later in the year, which will also be exciting.
Willow has moved on to reading about Leonardo da Vinci and Gabriel and I have been reading Paraic Colum's 'Myths of the World'.
Both have recently come to the end of their last blocks, Willow will be moving on to Biology and Gabriel on to maths. Willow will be using Kovac's Muscles and Bones as her main text, and we will complement it with Cure Tooth Decay, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration and some other interesting articles. Gabriel and I will continue on with using JUMP maths.
Willow has also been volunteering at City Farm, which has been interesting on many levels. She has been involved in various mosaic projects around the farm, and is really enjoying being involved in the community there. However we have been quite amused by their conversations around food- despite being an organic farm, there is still a great interest at lunch time in MacDonalds, Mars Bars and white bread. Each week Willow comes home with some sort of discussion about popular food culture.
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