John made spelt croissants for our new friends who came over for breakfast. Bruno is a Frenchman so we all thought John was very brave. The croissants were soo delicious.
Croissants!
Can you feel the love tonight?
Varsha and Laxmi have been going to music lessons for a while now. Just recently it seems like they have got to a point where they are really enjoying it. They are playing quite a lot at home and Varsha just showed Laxmi how to play this bit that she has been doing in her session. Varsha has decided to learn how to read musical notation. It’s so lovely that they have come to this out of their own enthusiasm.
Cakes, shirts and paper
Laxmi and Dakoda made chocolate cake today. Varsha has been stitching a dolls shirt and making paper.
Coconut, pandan and banana
Varsha scraped the flesh out of a coconut while Kiko had fun with the husk.
Laxmi has been doing lots of drawing and taking photos with the rainbow she gets on her desk in the afternoon.
Sizing paper and thinking about cooking
Varsha wants to make their own sketchbooks. We have gathered everything together to make the paper and looked at different kinds of paper I had made. I gave Varsha a book I made to draw in. The paper is very absorbent so we are experimenting with sizing the paper with rice flour and gelatin. The gelatin is working better than the rice. We are putting another coat on to see what happens.
Varsha has been making toasted wraps and we have been thinking about why toasting makes the wrap so much more delicious. We looked up the Maillard reaction which explains the many chemical changes that happen when you toast your wrap!
Some sunshine in the garden
Laxmi has been running laps in the garden and working on sit ups and push ups!
Beach camp
It was windy and rainy at the homeschoolers’ Beach camp this last weekend. We had fun anyway!
