This a drawing Chipmunk did of his family this morning.
It was the teachers strike so Chipmunk had the day off school.
Nice work Chipmunk :-)
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Chipmunks Drawing ~ 2 ~ 30-06-11
This a drawing Chipmunk did of his family this morning.
It was the teachers strike so Chipmunk had the day off school.
Nice work Chipmunk :-)
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Water
Just lately Chipmunk has been playing in water *a lot.*
First of all there is obviously his swimming,which he loves.
Secondly after tidying his water tray out he has been playing with it on a regular basis.
I love the fact that Chipmunk fills his water tray up all by himself.He's got his own bucket and can manipulate the outside tap.He knows that it's best only to fill the bucket half full as otherwise it gets to heavy to carry.The carrying of water in bucket is good for him because it is heavy and makes him use his muscles and it's also good to see him tip the water into the tray as he has to manipulate the bucket to get the wanted result,not a straight forward task!
We made boats for it yesterday from junk material and talked about *attaching*
Chipmunk used Sellotape to attach the sails to the boats and then we went and experimented with the boats in the water tray.
Two were successful but the other two sank and had to be dried in the sun.
The successful boats did indeed float and Chipmunk was really pleased with them.
Here they are bobbing merrily along
The other area of water play that Chipmunk adores is his paddling pool.
It may only be small but Chipmunk has hours of fun in it,proving that it's not always the big fancy toys that are the best!
Even on a cloudy day Chipmunk will play in his pool,he's not bothered about being cold or wet at all.
I think we are going to be using water a lot this summer :-)
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First of all there is obviously his swimming,which he loves.
Secondly after tidying his water tray out he has been playing with it on a regular basis.
I love the fact that Chipmunk fills his water tray up all by himself.He's got his own bucket and can manipulate the outside tap.He knows that it's best only to fill the bucket half full as otherwise it gets to heavy to carry.The carrying of water in bucket is good for him because it is heavy and makes him use his muscles and it's also good to see him tip the water into the tray as he has to manipulate the bucket to get the wanted result,not a straight forward task!
We made boats for it yesterday from junk material and talked about *attaching*
Chipmunk used Sellotape to attach the sails to the boats and then we went and experimented with the boats in the water tray.
Two were successful but the other two sank and had to be dried in the sun.
The successful boats did indeed float and Chipmunk was really pleased with them.
Here they are bobbing merrily along
The other area of water play that Chipmunk adores is his paddling pool.
It may only be small but Chipmunk has hours of fun in it,proving that it's not always the big fancy toys that are the best!
Even on a cloudy day Chipmunk will play in his pool,he's not bothered about being cold or wet at all.
I think we are going to be using water a lot this summer :-)
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Chipmunks Year 3 Teacher
On Friday we found out what teacher Chipmunk would be having when he transfers from Infant to Junior School!
I was quite nervous about finding out but as it turned out Chipmunk is having a teacher that has had both Tiger and Sharky.
No teacher before has ever had all three of the boys!
Now I know about this I feel a bit easier.
What will be,will be and all that...
He knows a couple of the children that are going into his new class and I think this will be a good thing for him.
There is more transition activities happening during July so we will have to embrace the change for sure!
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I was quite nervous about finding out but as it turned out Chipmunk is having a teacher that has had both Tiger and Sharky.
No teacher before has ever had all three of the boys!
Now I know about this I feel a bit easier.
What will be,will be and all that...
He knows a couple of the children that are going into his new class and I think this will be a good thing for him.
There is more transition activities happening during July so we will have to embrace the change for sure!
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Church Youth Club
It was a really busy week last week,lots of clubs and activities after school,really enjoyable though.
On Friday Chipmunk went to the church youth club.
He goes there once every three weeks and really enjoys it.They do lots of different things and today the main activity was baking.
The children were given some cookie dough and they rolled it flat,cut out a shape and then popped it in the oven to bake.
Chipmunk made two star shapes and when they had baked he decorated them and ate them both up :-)
The next day he said to that he had wanted to bring one home to show me but they were so delicious he decided to eat them both! I had to smile at that comment! To be honest they did smell very eatable!
The children played a game of dodge ball which was extremely boisterous and talked about the Lords Prayer.
Chipmunk put two bags of coins in the collecting bottle,his mamma had saved those for him to take.It took a long time to post all those coins,it was a good job that he had help from one of his school friends.
The night passed happily and Chipmunk had a good time.
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On Friday Chipmunk went to the church youth club.
He goes there once every three weeks and really enjoys it.They do lots of different things and today the main activity was baking.
The children were given some cookie dough and they rolled it flat,cut out a shape and then popped it in the oven to bake.
Chipmunk made two star shapes and when they had baked he decorated them and ate them both up :-)
The next day he said to that he had wanted to bring one home to show me but they were so delicious he decided to eat them both! I had to smile at that comment! To be honest they did smell very eatable!
The children played a game of dodge ball which was extremely boisterous and talked about the Lords Prayer.
Chipmunk put two bags of coins in the collecting bottle,his mamma had saved those for him to take.It took a long time to post all those coins,it was a good job that he had help from one of his school friends.
The night passed happily and Chipmunk had a good time.
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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Spellings ~ The Result!
Well Chipmunk got 5 out of 6 spellings,a great improvement on last week!
I think he was a little disappointed that he didn't manage 6-6 but I think he has done great!
The one that foiled him was *lady*
Now this weeks task is too make a sentence with the spellings using a connective!
Interesting!We'll see how we go!
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I think he was a little disappointed that he didn't manage 6-6 but I think he has done great!
The one that foiled him was *lady*
Now this weeks task is too make a sentence with the spellings using a connective!
Interesting!We'll see how we go!
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Swimming ~ Almost a frog!
Today Chipmunk was described by his swimming teacher as *almost a frog* :-)
This made me smile and I've been saying it ever since!
*Almost a frog* it has a certain ring to it I think!
It was of course breast stroke week and the children were doing *froggy arms and froggy legs*
Chipmunk tried so hard this week and had quite a serious look on his face for most of the lesson as he concentrated on making his arms and legs move in circles just like a frog.
There was only 6 children this week and the behaviour was good so they all did a lot of swimming.
I always love to see Chipmunk swim and I think he enjoys the lessons too.
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This made me smile and I've been saying it ever since!
*Almost a frog* it has a certain ring to it I think!
It was of course breast stroke week and the children were doing *froggy arms and froggy legs*
Chipmunk tried so hard this week and had quite a serious look on his face for most of the lesson as he concentrated on making his arms and legs move in circles just like a frog.
There was only 6 children this week and the behaviour was good so they all did a lot of swimming.
I always love to see Chipmunk swim and I think he enjoys the lessons too.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Eek!A Wobbly Mess!
On Tuesday what a mess we had!
Chipmunks water snake burst in bed,all over the sheets,all over the duvet and unbeknown to me all over Chipmunk!
The said water snake was bright red with glitter in it!And it spread everywhere!
Chipmunk hurried down stairs when he woke up to show me what had happened and I thought " whoops " but just thought I would have to clear it up later.
I didn't realise the full extent of the mess until Chipmunk was getting his school uniform on and I noticed his legs were bright red/pink and then I noticed it was on his back and his bottom and his arm!
I tried scrubbing him with a hot flannel and lots of soap but it only came off a bit.
There was nothing else for it,Chipmunk had to go to school red!
Luckily most of the redness was covered up with Chipmunks uniform and later that night he had a nice warm bubbly bath and that took away the last of the redness!
It even dyed Owly and he had to have a wash in the washer,poor Owly.
Here he is looking decidedly pink!
We now have a new rule
*No More Water Snakes's In Bed*
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Chipmunks water snake burst in bed,all over the sheets,all over the duvet and unbeknown to me all over Chipmunk!
The said water snake was bright red with glitter in it!And it spread everywhere!
Chipmunk hurried down stairs when he woke up to show me what had happened and I thought " whoops " but just thought I would have to clear it up later.
I didn't realise the full extent of the mess until Chipmunk was getting his school uniform on and I noticed his legs were bright red/pink and then I noticed it was on his back and his bottom and his arm!
I tried scrubbing him with a hot flannel and lots of soap but it only came off a bit.
There was nothing else for it,Chipmunk had to go to school red!
Luckily most of the redness was covered up with Chipmunks uniform and later that night he had a nice warm bubbly bath and that took away the last of the redness!
It even dyed Owly and he had to have a wash in the washer,poor Owly.
Here he is looking decidedly pink!
We now have a new rule
*No More Water Snakes's In Bed*
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