Plant Science: Photosynthesis AND The Sandpit

Chocolate cake helps with all educational (and not-so-educational) tasks



Constructing the Photosynthesis Formula game. [Download this for free from Ellen McHenry's Basement site here]

Other similar free downloads here

All the best games involve eating sweets

Oi! You've just eaten a hydrogen!

Once you've completed the top part it's a race to turn your carbons, hydrogens and oxygens into glucose, oxygen and water.

Man may have risen up from the primordial soup, but he's only a few steps from returning to his evolutionary roots:

The secret stash of yummy things held in the treasure chest of pinkland.

Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhh (or something like that)

Haircut.

Soon.

Is all I can say.

Wellies, hoody and skinny jeans is obviously the new look.

By the way, I've found a home-made shampoo recipe here, on the Here We are Together blog.

Might solve that pre-teen limp locks issue.

Or maybe not.

I await the scowling verdict.

Mud. Sand. Water.

Plant science took a back seat on Wednesday as instead we headed off to a local nature reserve with two other families. Trudging through the rain and equipped with fishing net, catapult, saw, hammer, and crazed spaniel, I guess, we must have looked a strange bunch.

The very small pink thing on the ridge of the tall sandy cliff? Yep, it's dd, the child that tells me she's scared of heights!

It's at times like this I remember all that I learnt about soil erosion and mudslides at university.
Yep, that tree looks darn precarious to me. That's it child, just terrify your mother by standing next to it.

Water, sand and mud. The best combination of playthings.

Catapult boy.

Don't try that 'I'm not up to anything' look with me!

Those crazy home educating families head home.

If you've ever read Puss in Boots then you'll know that Dick Wittington always carries his lunchbox in a pink fishing net.