2022 part Two

We had a bit of a rubik's craze here early last year, which saw Irving in particular taken by the 3x3 and the 4x4 cube. There was lots of watching youtube and practising the algorithm until, he went from the first more basic cube to the larger one. It also happened that there was a speed cubing event in the Fringe, so we had to go to that! They were astonishingly fast to watch, and seemed a little unnatural.

Irving decided to cut all his hair short, and donate it.

 

Off on the wheels- new rollerskates, and a shorter hairstyle.

  

Working on some maths- creating prisms and NAPLAN. This was the first time we've done NAPLAN in the family. Willow did OLNA, Gabriel didn't do any tests. It was a useful exercise in the experience of doing a test, for Arden, and I think reassured him, that his education is working! Personally I found it amusing that I was allowed to run the test. Historically that would not have been ok.

 

Learning about making ink, using coffee, berries and candle black.

Reading-Norse Mythology with Irving, and Frankenstein, with Arden.

Norse Mythology

Frankenstein

Bread making from our German Baking book. 

mohn brotchen.

Getting the fire going and baking damper on the winter solstice in the embers. 

Off ten pin bowling for Irving's birthday.

Term 2 part 2

Towards the end of the term we spent a month looking at poetry, in different styles and learning about metres, and how to understand them.  Arden and I worked together to come up with the our own poems in the various rhythms. 

We have a few poetry books at home, but I figured we needed a greater variety for this, so collected some more from the library.

The poetry books we used.

During this time we were also reading Beowulf. 

Plus we ordered a denk fire bowl to use in the colder weather.  It doesn't really get cold in Perth, just overnight, so we got up early on Winter solstice and made a small damper to bake in the embers of our bowl.

It got a bit stuck to the aluminium foil, but was still delicious!

We were playing hopscotch whilst out and about for a while, after meeting a lady who drew up a game of it for us!

Arden recently finished reading Hemmingway's "Old Man and the Sea".

We read "Tom Sawyer" earlier in the year, and we used Kovacs' "Ancient Rome" as well as Emily Frenkel's version of "Aenas" for Arden's first block on Ancient Rome.

Third time around we are using "Lingua Latina" for Latin.

Irving and I had been working on some cursive, helping to build up his familiarity with the alphabet.

Irving experimenting with celtic knot patterns.

Irving and Arden working on geometry.  Irving likes to join in, so he does the bits he can manage.

I'm still working on this,just recently traced the quilting image onto it, unfortunately it won't be ready til next winter! (I'm sitting under it right now!-2025)

Irving is starting to get the hang of skateboarding.

April Hols

Quite some time ago I meant to do a post about our activities and outings during our April break.  Somehow this year just seems to be flying by, and I'm not getting on here very often.  Here are some moments....

What happens when escalators are being installed, and I am travelling with Arden and Irving....a mini physics lesson.  We spend quite a bit of time examining the inner structure of the cogs and wheels.

 A beautiful day catching the train across the Swan River.

Skateboarding and scootering our way down to the Swan River.  Followed by some tree climbing for Arden and Irving.

And some reading.

Arden made us some home made gnocchi.

Working on refurbishing a Bart Simpson skateboard.

Arden making hot chocolate with cinnamon topping.

Stool repairs.  We all spent a bit of time working on various repair jobs around the house.