Completed Frog lapbook

Another lapbook that David and I made from Homeschoolshare. David enjoys the colouring in, and there is writing enough for him. He is keen to do more and this morning we bought a Pocket of Time for the first Spiderwick Chronicles book. It came from Currclick and it was a downloadable purchase, which meant we could get on with it there and then. Strike while the iron was hot, so to speak. I know we claim to be autonomous, but it is his choice. He enjoys doing them and so do I! Although my conscience is struggling slightly with the amount of paper we use for all these printable things. We still probably use less than they would at school.

I also had the bigger two boys sitting down with Maths workbooks today. It was quite amusing to see their faces drop! They dutifully sat there and worked through a few pages and completed a multipplication square each. David and Willie used the computer. Seussville and Numbertime. David realised yesterday that he could find Dino run and Bug on a wire from the long list on Mini clip. Hewas very pleased with himself.

Willie has been really joining in with things...he coloured in a Frog lapbook cover page too, colouring and drawing with a vengeance. In fact the other day Rob and I went to Compton Verney and Will was given a sketch pad by the receptionist. In one of the first rooms he was inspired to draw one of the figures from a big painting. It was a painting by Paolo Veronese of Diana and Actaeon. Naked ladies in a river basically!! His drawing was incredible, not because it was a fantastic drawing, but because he drew each part of her as he observed it it. Telling me what he was drawing as he was doing it. An artist, like his daddy!