Like many families we participate in the tradition of giving chocolate eggs at Easter time. I am not sure whether it is because Christmas still seemed like only a few weeks ago, …
Planning For The Easter Holiday Car Trip
This time next week, I will be finalising the packing for our Easter holiday. Easter this year in Victoria, also combines with school holidays, so we will are going to spend a …
Selecting TV Programs For The Kids.
I have mentioned before that we limit the amount of television/computer time that our kids have. During the week days in school terms, I am also more selective about what it is …
Useful Box
I made a trip out to the Reverse Art Truck this week to replenish supplies for our useful box. This was part of the rotation of toys that I was implementing at …
Children’s Timetable Term 1 2008
In a previous post I spoke about some of the things that I like to do , to make school mornings easier. One thing that I like to do, but didn’t include …
Planning the Term 1 Week
I have just started to put together a picture of what of the average Term 1 week is going to look like. I often spend time wondering about what is the right …
Our Own Animation
NB. I have tried numerous times through out the day to upload the photos and video of our outing and have not been successful, I think blogger/my PC is having an issue. …
According To My Plan………
Right about now, according to my plan I should be at the NGV checking out an exhibition with the kids. To make this excursion as much fun as possible, I placed both …
Planning Time To Stop And Play
In an earlier post on planning school holiday activities, I spoke about how I like to plan time with the kids so we are just at home and doing our own thing. …
10 Things To Do With The Kids When It Is Hot!
We went into Federation Square (Melbourne) yesterday to see the Animated kids’ classics at ACMI . The cartoons were very different change of pace for the kids. Felix the cat was a …
Painting A Pretty Picture
Thought I would share with you some of the beautiful art work my children created today. We had a lovely day, with time in the garden (dad has a major project underway) …
Planned Holiday Activites For The Children
Here are the planned activities that we have for the remaining weeks of the holidays: Week starting 7th January: Day trip to visit friends. Animated kids’ classics at ACMI – Animated story …
Planning The Holidays And Getting Bored
At the start of the school holidays we discussed in our family meeting what activities the children would like to do. The three older children came up with 2-3 things that they …