Thursday, August 26, 2010

Wow such a while has gone by since this was filled in. Jorja is now enrolled for Prep at Gin Gin State School, we have decided she would be better of in school. Her skills now include counting to 100 and back again, basic addition we do this by counting pegs,food, fingers etc and she picked it up really quick. She knows her letters and can recongise a few sounds. Jorja can write most letters of the alphabet and writes her own name confidently. Ok enough bragging about my child.

Her newest skill is riding her pushbike confidently and i told her when she can ride that confidently she could ride her ponies by herself now she is nagging me to saddle them up. I will still be keeping a close eye out on her. Kirk has been here with his new bike and they enjoy their newfound freedom of being able to ride to the first gate down the driveway where they are still under supervision but they dont know this.

Well some more updates again soon....PROMISE

Monday, May 24, 2010

New Foods

Last night we dined on Japanese Food at Tamara and Sean's place a very different taste for me , mum and dad. Dinner was nice but then we had Rosella's for dessert with coffee custard and lemon cake, i asked what the Rosella's were and got the reply that they were budgies heads and the red juice was blood, well that was it i wasn't eating anymore. Mum tried to explain to me that it was a fruit.

Tomorrow im excited to be going to Maryborough to go to the TESS Animal Sanctuary with the Widebay Little Learners, it should be fun. More on that tomorrow.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Nature Painting!





















Today Jorja had her friend Kirk over to play for a few hours and we decided to do some painting using objects from the garden, we had leaves, rocks, sticks, flowers and a variety of other things. They enjoyed this project and were very excited to use different things other than a paint brush. This improves fine motor skills, sharing skills, social and conversation skills. The painting then turned into them painting each other, they loved it very much as you can see. They then had running races to see who would win, and of course both of them did.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Wildlife Pets

On the weekend we visited Dan's great Aunty Sandra and Uncle Arthur, they have some wildlife who are very quiet in thier backyard one was a possum called Cupcake and a Lizard whom they have called George. We tried to feed Cupcake bread with marmalade jam but she didnt want to show her head out from the roller door in the shed. George however sat in the sun warming up and Jorja had to make sure he was still there the whole time we were there, needless to say he was very quiet as well and let you walk right up to him but there was no touching. Jorja loved this experience with the wildlife and has broadened her understanding on wildlife. This week i aim to show her about Possums and the varied species of Lizards. Now would be a great time to go to Snakes Down Under.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Resposibilities!

Jorja was given a Guinea Pig from a lady who runs Old McDonalds Farm, thus bringing with it responsibilty. So far the novelty is still there and poor old Spike get lots of lovin and he gets what he need when he needs it. The requirements of Spike at the moment is a hair brush to apparently brush his hair. Like i said Poor old Spike....cheap and easy to care for....

Monday, February 22, 2010

Friends and Painting

Jorja has a little friend up the road, his name is Kirk. Kirk decided he wanted an aquarium like his nannys but mum refused, so they improvised with painting a wall Blue, now all he has to do is make underwater creatures to stick to the wall. This requires no feeding or cleaning of the tank, very clever mum. Jorja and Kirk painted the wall together with thier mum's and found it an exciting activty, this enhances both of their Gross Motor, Language and Social Skills. We both had a great day out.

Friday, February 19, 2010

The Beginning

After careful consideration we have decided to look into home schooling our princess...the varied schooling options are out there tempting me to make sure our daughters education is of top A+ quality......Look out here for new updates and activites we decide