Cup cake girls

A piece of cake!

Baking at Grandma's

Saturday 23rd February 2013

Katie and Lily decorated a batch of cupcakes that Grandma had baked with them. They used chocolate icing and butter cream and sugar sprinkles as well.

Lily  covering her cakes with chocolate icing

Katie is doing a mixture of chocolate and butter cream on her cakes

Now it is sprinkle time....how much mess can they make!

      

Now we have the finished cakes.....they look good enough to eat

                                           And that is just what they did.


A great time was had by all and it was a great learning exercise also. These cookery lessons will be a regular part of our new teaching plan and we all look to forward to great things to come to keep us nicely filled up. 



 Well done girls! 

And we are off!

Homeschooling all three girls........

Our Journey Begins

Saturday 23rd February 2013

    We started the process of homeschooling with a session in the great outdoors, even though there was snow beginning to fall. Lily and Katie had been looking forward to start  pulling on their wellies and getting stuck into the mucky stuff and planting their seeds for the forth coming growing season. So they dragged Ray out into the garden to get going.

                                                                                                          

      

     Lily (bending). Katie laboring and Ray keeping them both on the right track

They started by getting all the compost from the compost heap to fill up all the pots, borders and planters ready to receive the bulbs and seeds.               

                             

                             

When all the compost was in the right place the job of planting began.

They planted:

seed potatoes

sweet peas,

garlic,

tending to the daffodils

and plenty of watering!

Hopefully the hard work will result in a bumper crop later in the year. Great fun was had and they look forward to tending to these and doing lots more planting as we move further into spring and summer.

MY DAY

 

TODAY  I  WENT   TO FAIRHAVEN LAKE. I SAW LOADS AND LOADS OF DUCKS , BIRDS ,AND SWANS .  WE WENT TO THE ICE CREAM TRUCK AND I HAD AN ALMOND MAGNUM.  IT WAS SCRUMMY . THEN  WE  WENT TO NANA'S. I HAD A PANCAKE. I PRETENDED  THAT HER CARPET WAS A BEACH  AT  FIRST  THEN  IT  WAS  A ICE SKATING RINK  AND NEXT  A  GYM .  I  HAD  LOADS  OF  FUN .  I ALSO LOVED PLAYING  WITH  MY  NANA ' S  DOG  BOBBY  HE  IS  SO  ADORABLE .  WHEN  MY  GRANDMA  RUNG  UP  I TOLD MUM TO MAKE  HER  JEALOUS BY TELLING  HER  ABOUT MY  ALMOND  ICE CREAM AS THESE ARE  HER  FAVORITE  .  

by  Katie  Poyner  

Pancake Day

Above is a picture of my pancake i made it myself for the first time and i never even burnt it.

By Louise age 14