Gabriel has started on his next cross-stitch project. He designed his first one based around animals and crystals, and his second design was on knights and dragons. He'd like to sew both of them by the end of the year- at this stage it seems like a lot of work, but he's getting much more consistent with his sewing. He has started on the first part of his animal cushion, which consists of four panels with different images.
Willow is still working at her stuffed toy project, and at this stage is drawing lots of horses, her drawing has improved immensely over the last few weeks, and I think after a few more weeks of drawing it may be time for her to move onto planning how she will make her toy horse.
Willow had her final singing lesson tonight with her choir before we move, and has one final flute lesson and a flute concert this weekend. Her singing concert was a couple of weekends ago, and as usual was a success. This time Willow had a shared 'solo' part which was exciting for her. She loves singing on stage, and was really pleased to get the shared part in singing 'Maria' from 'The Sound of Music'.
Both kids have been doing a block on maths- Willow business maths and Gabriel fractions. But our usual bookwork, has fallen to the side this week, as the kids had a visit to Mt Gambier to see their cousins there. They had a fabulous time and have been talking non-stop about wrestling, basketball, frogs, computer games, and goats amongst other highlights of their stay.
There's quite a bit to do round here, with getting ready for the move, but gradually things are getting done. We've got a couple more things to sell, or throw out, and boxes are getting packed - so that's good, we need to find a home there and catch up with friends before we go. I've already contacted their homeschool community and on first impression they seem very friendly, but my plan at this stage is to have a rather low key term so that we can get to know Perth at a more relaxed pace.
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So there was no anthroposophical shop here, but there was a nice shop associated with one of the schools at one point. Eventually I accepted to get the resources here that I needed to order them online. So many of these things that I like are difficult to get or do in Perth. And whilst that door is closed off here- unless we travel to the South of WA, there are other interesting things that I enjoy here. Perth IMO is a much more extroverted place, than Adelaide, and I have found it interesting that so many of the things that I miss from home, are quite easily found by visiting the small towns of the South.
Heading to Southern Aurora Steiner shop.
Before vanishing, the shop became "The Honeyclock".
We took a while to settle into friendships here, which I somewhat expected, I had a similar experience when we moved to Glasgow, but I found it much more challenging then, as Willow and Gabriel were so small and I didn't have a sense of how long that process could take. With the move to Perth, I was quite patient about it, but Willow found it a bit tricky, and it was only when we started music classes at Cottage institute, do we start to find our sort of people.
Settling in to Perth, and starting at Cottage Institute with Willow.
