Such a busy day!

K & M set their alarms for 7.30 this morning, so they could have a meeting about a play that they have started writing, with the intention of producing and starring in at some point in the not too distant future. It's called The Secrets of the Wood and it's about a sprite and a fox who meet in the wood and become friends. So far they've decided on the main parts, K as the sprite and M as the fox, decided which friends they are going to invite to take part and started writing the story in picture format. We've also picked up some pretty netting with stars and some brown material from the scrapstore, which we can use for costumes. This afternoon we did some research and found some fox sounds on the internet.

The first Tuesday of the month is Fun Club, one of our earliest experiences of a HE group and one of our favourites. Some months we, the parents, come up with things to do, other times we have outside providers come in. This month was one of the best outside providers we've had in my opinion. We had a planetarium come, the man who brought it certainly pitched the level just right for the younger ones (we went in in two groups), when K, M & I went in, and the older ones sounded just as satisfied after their turn. We saw pictures of the planets, moon landings, the sun, with questions that had the children really engaged (including my very hard to engage K) and enough information for everyone to learn something without overwhelming anyone.

Afterwards we heading upstairs to do some related craft activities, including making planets out of scrunched up newspaper covered in foil or tissue paper, chalk space pictures on black paper and decorating paper plate flying saucers. M made a small planet and stuck bits of paper to make a bearded face (sadly she won't let me put a photo on blog), it was of course 'a dwarf planet'! This is K's space picture, it's a picture of Wiz, the alien who visits Earth in the Dick King-Smith book Harriet's Hare, after he's returned home to the planet Pars.

Once we were home, we had a look at our naked egg, which has been sitting in a glass of white vinegar for a couple of days now.

and poked it a bit

before transferring it to a glass of water with some green food colouring in, as suggested.

We also cracked open another egg and had a look at its anatomy, which was really rather fascinating. Tomorrow we'll break open our naked egg and hopefully see evidence that the membrane is permeable!