wodensmeet – zentangles, cells, remembrance and music

before I blog the day, I just want to reiterate how lucky I am to have the friends I do. We are a very disparate bunch, brought together by home education and an inability to just follow the crowd. We have shared history, hopefully shared tomorrows, but also a shared understanding of each other. And today, when out of the blue discussing future xmases i remembered my last with little nanny, i was comforted by the friends around me. thankyou. and apart from that blue moment we have laughing, giggling, gossiping. We are different, unique, strongwilled and make a good group.

SO having said that! SB didn’t start with us, bless her she had her traintracks fitted and joined nearer lunchtime

we started with the kids doing zentangle hands, I missed taking the group shot – tho zoe did on her blog but i did get BB’s, which i thought she had done well. they then did sketch tuesday, something beginning with n – so maddy did nothing – grin BB did a nut, having had a strop that acorn didn’t begin with a n. ah well

then merry did remembrance poetry comparing 2 different styles of war poem – sb was quite thoughtful about this on our dirve home so clearly very valued by her. BB was also v happy to have done it though not as thoughtful as asleep! and i did microscopes. i have one more microscoping to do. because they ahve to wait to use it etc, even though groups of 4 and 5, i can see it isn’t holding the attention quite as much, and i do have to help focus and show so can’t do too much talking at the same time. so perhaps not ideal, but maddy and r are clearly v taken by microscopes, and looked at all the preprepared slides i brought of human organs as well. BB is keener than sb too. today we scraped off a bit of cheek cells, stained only with haemotoxylin, as i couldn’t find the eosin! and then looked under the fab microscope. we could clearly see the different cells, shapes and increased nucleus to cytoplasm ration, we discussed the comparison with our onion cells from before. i really love microscopes! by the end of this session, as long as i had mostly focused, quite a few of the kids were having there own go at fine tuning the focus, and we only broke a few coverslips! I love the microscope, and love seeing the nuclei appear – it is a bit of magic

we had lunch in between the swapping over of groups – scrumptious delumptious soup that zoe had made – carrot and courgette. really delicious . then, as we are gearing up for xmas camp we practiced singing some carols an xmas songs we me hamming up the piano part! fun! and then lots of crazy outdoor playing. SB had to have some medicine for her teeth, and BB for her wrist, which is still hurting . Then merry did the last fimo and jar craft in her series, which this time had a black covering over the whole jar and cutting out shapes and replacing with translucent fimo – v beautiful, I hadn’t thought of using the translucent like that.

finished with some bells practice and then since BB too sore to do judo we stayed for tea – a yummy curry, thanks em