Holiday Randomness

Well friends I am in my second week of holidays and I have finally gotten out of my pyjamas :) No seriously I did get out of them a bit earlier last week.  I have not been as productive as I wanted to be although I have really invested A LOT of time with Pinterest.

Having said that this is what I have done so far on my hold, remember it is Winter here in Australia and I do not under any circumstances LOVE Winter, of course this is why I live in the most Southern state of our nation (Northern Hemisphere folks, please realise this is the state nearest to Antarctica).

After getting out of my pyjamas last Wednesday :) I got a bit of a prune on my hair.  I went from this

to this

I hosted a dinner for 12 at my house...ummm it was delicious!  On the menu was Drunken Teryaki Roast Lamb with roast vegetables and mini raspberry cheese cakes with raspberry sauce and berry sorbet and a few vino's to finish it off and perhaps to start it as well.

By the way if you are interested in getting your dinners organised or some new recipe's don't forget to check out my new page Healthy Eats for Teachers.  I will be adding some weekly menus and organisation when I head back to school next week.

I put up this little freebie for you all!  It is a 5 senses poem template we did in out last week of school. The one we did at school was not as cute as this because the idea quickly jumped in my head when I was trying to figure out what we could do in the last week.  Oh I also accidentally printed off 241 copies of the ugly 5 Senses template because I forgot to delete the 1 when I was printing from my computer.....there goes my photocopy budget for the next term.  Seriously....gone.
Just click on the pic below to get your FREE copy!

Had a lovely lunch with some of the gals from school, so nice to catch up without rushing past each other or moving along in the photocopy line (which you won't see me in next term).

Anyway I just thought I would catch you up with what has been happening (or not happening), the rest of the week will see us up at our Conservation Block clearing gorse!

Newspaper Snowmen

This is a really quick post because I just wanted to share this little art project I did with my kiddos last week.  We have had some wild, woolly and snowy weather here in our little corner of the world

and I was inspired to get rid of a bunch of newspapers we had accumulated, so this is what we did!

We made newspaper snowmen!

My kiddos were allowed to cut or tear the news print to create a wintery night time snowscape.  To add a bit of sparkle and glamour we added some glitter where we thought the snow might fall.

What do you think?  An easy and fun art activity to while away a cold rainy afternoon.

I'm melting, I'm melting.......

Well those of you who are Down Under know that over the last week we have had some very, very hot weather.  Where I live has been no exception, today and yesterday were the first days that we had under 42 degrees C (that's 109F for you northern folk).  We have been lucky in that we have not been affected by the fires but we live in a rural area and many of the outlying properties and farms have had pasture destroyed and livestock lost.  

All this hot weather has kept me inside in the air conditioning and after I cleaned out my study, cleaned the rest of the house, made a huge amount of salads, hounded the children to clean their rooms including their closets and under their bed (I'm sure they forget we were kids once and know all their tricks) there was not much else to do except........get working on some resources, so for your viewing pleasure ladies and gents I give you.....

Snowball Fight!  A Place Value Bingo game

and Length Measurement Task cards for inches, feet and yards

Just click on either pic to go to my TpT store.  Both of these resources are 20% for one week but the first person to leave a comment will get to choose one to have for their very own for FREE!

Winter landscapes

Here are the Winter landscapes my kids did today.  We used water paints for the sky, a watered down coffee mixture as the land and a brown ink for the trees, (the white represents snowa).  I dripped the ink and the kiddos used straws to blow the ink around to create their leafless trees.  Very abstract I thought, but they had lots of fun and I know this because they had lots of mess to clean up (:  We are going to publish our Winter acrostic poems tomorrow and then display them with our paintings.  Can't wait.

Reports finished!

Well, I have finished my reports, proof read them and handed them in. I am sure I will get them back for a redo, I always do....can never seem to get it right the first time. Oh well. The good news is the hard part is done and I feel like a weight has lifted. I am planning to do some winter landscapes with my kiddos tomorrow to go with some acrostic poems we have been writing about winter. I will post photos to show how they went, this will be our second attempt as the first one was abysmal...even the kiddos wanted to trash their own efforts. Very excited only 12 school days left till the holidays, but who's counting. Hope report writing goes well for all who are still going....