Molesworth Environment Centre – Pond Life Study

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Mama

Watching a powerpoint presentation

Today we enjoined an outing to Molesworth where we enjoyed learning about Pond Life with other Home Educating families. This was one of the activities I had arranged late last year for us all to enjoy in 2010. The girls enjoyed it immensely. The best part however was when they got to actually go to a pond and investigate the water to see how many of the creatures they learnt about were lurking around.

Collecting the Specimens

Examining the Pond Life

Identification Chart

Drawing the specimens

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Football Fever – At last we can go to a game!

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Mama

Well today is a great day! we have always followed the football team in the AFL called Richmond, Tigers and we have always enjoyed going to the football to watch them play – rain, hail or shine, win or loose! However since moving to Tasmania, we have not had the opportunity to see the Tigers in action – live, as we just have not been back to Melbourne in footy season to go and see a game.

So we were delighted when Richmond was announced as coming to Launceston in Tasmania to play Hawthorn for the NAB cup. We rushed to purchase tickets the minute they went on sale in December and got great premium reserved seats! So today was the day. Football Fever landed in our house. Unfortunately I was so sick that the ticket I had purchased for me could not be used, for I was to stay home in bed, while SZG took the girls to the Footy. To say i was devbistated is an understatement, but then how I feel is so bad right now that I know I made the right and only decision to stay home.

The girls and their day had a great time. They got all dressed up in footy gear and enjoyed the game of footy, even though their team lost by a long shot… Now that’s dedication for you.

Ready for the Football!

Football Fever has Arrived!

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Our Trip to the Richmond Maze!

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Mama

Today we took a trip to Richmond to visit at the Richmond Maze – Which is actually two mazes in total! The weather was quite warm and the children where all excited. The trip around the first maze proved to be a bit puzzling to us, after quite a while of walking around and finding dead ends, we were guided to the centre of the maze by another group of our friends.

The second maze we found to be much easier to navigate. It had no dead ends, so if you went the wrong way you could be walking around it for hours. This seemed to be the issue for the other group of friends who visited the maze with us. Our Friends, after finding the middle of the second maze, seemed to get lost on their way out and after about 30 minutes walking around in circles they rang our mobile to ask for help! We assisted them with providing them a map as we could not get close enough to them to help them actually find their way out..

Thankfully another family were also enjoying the maze and assisted in navigating the way back to the front of the maze for themselves and our friends and everything turned out fine!

A lot of fun and also frustration was had, and the only thing I can say is make sure you carry a drink bottle when attempting the mazes, because if you get lost it can be a long time between drinks! – oh and grab a map before you venture in!

A Postcard of the Richmond Mazes

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Hobart Botanical Gardens in Bloom October 2009

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Mama

Well we spent a day at the Botanical Gardens today. The children enjoy looking at all the brightly coloured plants and flowers and taking note of what is new for the different seasons every time we visit.

Here are some of the stunning plants and flowers we seen today!

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Fun at the Beach – Verona Sands

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Mama

Well today we went down to Verona Sands to visit with some friends of ours. They have a Shack down there and invited us for the day to share in their youngest daughters birthday celebrations.

Even though the weather was a little on the windy and chilly side, we enjoyed the day away immensely. The girls loved being able to ride the bikes up and down the road with minimal adult supervision. We took two walks along the beach. The first one was before lunch and involved us walking along the sand and enjoying the sound of the crashing waves up onto the beach.

We had a BBQ for lunch, which was nice. I tried Sweet Chilli Chicken Sausages for the first time. They are definitely different and can pack some punch, but over all were nice to eat.

Our Second walk was after lunch mid afternoon and involved us taking a walk along the beach again towards some rocks, were the children took the time to go ‘crab’ hunting. They had brought along buckets and the idea was to see who could collect the most ‘crabs’ for the day. It was funny watching the children find them and often not want to pick them up, but in the end both groups had a great collection of ‘crabs’ which they lovingly looked after for a while.

A great day was had by all and we look forward to going back down to Verona Sands one day again soon in a little warmer weather!

Here are some pictures of our day out!