There is something about Totem Poles that my kids just love. They have made them out of play dough, they have made them out of tin cans, they have made them out of cotton spools, they have made them out of boxes… But their favorite has been made from a pile of logs that we [...]
Se7en Make Totem Poles Again and Again…
January 29th, 2010 · 6 Comments
Tags: Outdoors · Tuesday Art Task
Saturday Spot: Enya and James in the Land of Magic…
December 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments
We have been on about Kalk Bay Books before and their wonderful story times. Well yesterday we headed for Saturday morning story time and the week before Christmas promised to be something special! This is what we found:
Enya and James and their mom telling us their story from their new book… This photograph of the [...]
Tags: Cape Town · Saturday Spot · shopping
Se7en Egg-stra Special Easter Craft Ideas…
April 3rd, 2009 · 7 Comments
We needed to get round to some Easter Crafts… the long weekend is looming, and as usual we have totally filled it with friends – YAY! This is one weekend we aren’t reclusive and we will be busy busy busy… Of course as this looms and the anticipation of all these visitors, four days straight, [...]
Tags: Holiday Crafts · Outdoors · Tuesday Art Task
Se7en Easy Science Observation Ideas Activities…
November 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Following on from Se7en Easy Science Notebook Ideas… here come Se7en easy Activities to get the observational juices flowing:
Plants – Flower Pressing: My kids love this there is something magical about hiding a flower in a press for a couple of days and out it comes in all its splendor.
And if you don’t have a [...]
Tags: Science · Se7en at School
Se7en Easy Science NoteBook Ideas…
November 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments
It’s Thursday and How Se7en Do Science carries on with Science Observation and Nature Note booking.
Obviously all these note booking ideas can be spread across the range of observational material, but I had to start somewhere… so I spread them through our list of se7en things we observe.
This is basically a list of [...]
Tags: Science · Se7en at School
How Se7en Do Their Nature Notebooks…
November 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
We work in our Nature Notebooks about twice a week. I am glad to report that if I get busy with things domestic, then my kids will haul out their books and seek stuff out themselves. If we are having a grumbly day and I put everything aside and do this first – instead of [...]
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Se7en Ideas To Get Your Nature Notebooks Started…
November 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I know I have been promising a Science Journal Post for a while… but so much to blog and so little time. I managed to write this epic last week and then lost it in a freakish delete kind of way and was just too disheartened to look at it again. That should teach [...]
Tags: Science · Se7en at School
