April at home

Hi! Today it's me, Isla talking about what we have been doing lately.

This was back in April/May when we were not able to go to school or work. There was no toilet paper, pasta, pasta sauce, rice, flour or hand soap in the shops. We didn't go to the supermarket, mummy went once a week. We had to use hand sanitiser when we were out. We were only supposed to go out to exercise, which we mainly did at the beach or for a bike ride. We couldn't see our friends or go to each other's houses. We couldn't even go to the play parks as they were taped off.

Instead, we spent time with our family and talked to our friends on zoom. We also played Minecraft with our friends over the internet. We did school work in the mornings. Isla did most of her work on the computer herself, while we helped Evie with her maths, English and science. Isla and Evie did maths warm-up games and PE together. We really liked seeing videos from our teachers on the school website. We got really good at skipping and hula hooping and also did obstacle courses in our garden. One morning we woke up to find our driveway had been decorated by our friends with chalks! We left chalk rainbows on their driveway too another day.

We made cupboards for our new laundry room:

We made marbled art using shaving foam and watercolour paint:

A nature mandala for Evie's weekend homework:

A case-moth caterpillar climbing our glass fence:

Evie decorated the rocks in the garden with watercolour paints:

Lots of fish in Noosa River:

Noosa River was so quiet and peaceful without any boats:

Our pet Lily the praying mantis:

We got really creative with our sandcastles, especially the tunnels:

Our obstacle course:

There were swarms of blue tiger butterflies:

Easter cornflake cakes:

A plane had sky-written love and kisses:

A little bit of swimming in our wetsuits:

We made vanilla cakes by ourselves using a packet mix:

Lily laid some eggs. We had to catch moths and spiders for her every day to eat. We released her on the hibiscus tree in the garden and she stayed there for a few days.

The Great Glendinning Bake-Off: Andrew's coffee cake and Isla and Evie's vanilla cake

 We tested the pH of some things in our kitchen using boiled red cabbage water:

Isla and daddy made a computer out of spare parts:

We got ice creams at the beach after our first day back at school: