Our first snake of the season, under eights day and a school trip

Hello! How are you?

Half way through the last term, we took a trip to the zoo one weekend. We did a few different things. Rode on zoo teacups:

Went to Bindi's island to visit the boa constrictor (Isla has been learning a funny song about one at school):

and the lemurs:

And then a wild carpet python slithered across the path!

There was a special morning for the younger children at school called 'Under 8's day'. Evie and I joined in after swimming, but this year Isla preferred exploring all of the activities with her friends. There were lots of crafts to make, gloop, water play, and Donna the Clown. 

A lot of Lego building has been going on recently:

Evie and I went on a trip to the Big Boing with a couple of friends one morning:

Near the end of term, Isla's class and the other three Year 1 classes had an excursion to Maleny Dairy. I went along as a parent helper. The children learnt about how cows are milked and how the plastic bottles are made. Isla was lucky enough to feed a calf from a bottle and helped brush Tasha the cow and feed chickens. Isla learnt how to play 'rock, paper, scissors' on the bus journey home and got to leave school early that day with me!

While Isla and I were hard at work on the farm, Evie and Andrew took a trip to Aussie World, a theme park nearby.

 It was book week and Isla dressed as Rapunzel as a nice easy costume this year!

They both went to a little friend's birthday party and decorated gingerbread people while dressed as Frozen princesses:

We found a brilliant nature reserve to explore one weekend. It is called Maroochy Wetlands Reserve. It has boardwalks through some native forest (reminded us of the Faraway Tree and Enchanted Wood that we've just finished reading at bedtime) leading into a mangrove before reaching the river.

Among the mangroves trees was a crab hide! There are many different species of crabs that can be spotted on the surface of the mud.

A goanna visited our patio:

Bye bye!

Fish, Fire, Jump

Hello! Today the blog post is written by Isla and Evie.

Evie went fishing and caught a diamond fish, a toadfish, and a bream.

Evie saw Peppa Pig:

Our flowers:

Thanks for the sticker book Granny:

Here is the photo for Evie's swimming lessons. She was awarded swimmer of the month for her kicking and beautiful listening in lessons.

Evie went to the park on Friday and spent ages on the blue slides.

She cycled along by the river to the Big Pelican.

I rode on my bike to the beach. We played tag. It was awesome playing at the beach!

There was a bushfire near our house. It made me feel anxious. We went to look at it and the fire was on a tree very close to someone's house.

On Sunday, we went to Noosa North Shore and we  also saw some horses having fun in the sea.

We bounced up and down on a jumping pillow. It was lots of fun!

Evie and I made lots of friends at the jumping pillow. They could do rollypollies and cartwheels on the jumping pillow and one was called Isla. Evie and I think that one of the babies was called Glincy.

On the way home from Noosa North Shore we went to an art studio. Most of the pictures were of people and I didn't like them too much. 

I went to my friends playdate. The friends there were called E, S, T, V, D, I and L. We played a game called Police Tag.

At last we were eating some beautiful food from KFC.