My Lemons!

Last week I 'needed' a lemon from Tesco's. I named him Knobbly. Knobbly was lonely, so this week I added 'Lemony' to my collection! I have played with the two lemons, talked to them, interacted with them and had lots of fun. Äiti is threatening to cut one up to flavour a drink! I made up a little story about my lemons...

The idea of a lemon shaped book was my idea as was the story content. I also added all the page numbers. I wrote everything in yellow as lemons are....yellow! The spellings (apart from Knobbly) are my own.

Front page...äiti wrote this...Page 2 and 3- A picture of Knobbly (name written underneath)

Page 4- Knobbly fell over and hurt his tummy- the red on his tummy is the 'hurt'. The writing says 'Knobbly hurt his tummy'. Page 5- 'He went up'. Picture is an airplane- the grey window is where Knobbly is sitting, he has pulled the window blind down as the sun was in his eyes!

Page 6/7. Knobbly is in the garden of his mum's house. His tummy is still hurting (the red). He is excited (open happy mouth). His mum's house is just over there. She has a green door with a letter box.

Page 8/9- 'He went to see his Äiti (mum'). His mum is Lemony. Knobbly is sad as his tummy still hurts, he is crying and rubbing his tears away. Page 10- 'His äiti cuddled (cudr) him' Knobbly is now happy!

My half-term holiday

I didn't have to go to school this week as it was half term. I missed school a lot even though I did lots of fun things.

Emily and I went to an open farm, we got to feed the goats and the deers. We also got to stroke the donkeys, see the pigs, rabbits, chicks and chickens. There was also a play park that Emily and I played in.

I also went to the rainforest! We have a 'living rainforest' quite close to our house. I spent the morning there looking at leaves, sting ray, pythons, frogs, caterpillars, butterflies, pygmy marmosets and chameleons. I had a great time. I spent a while in the shop reading the books. It was a fun morning. For lunch, äiti took me into town where I had a sandwich. She then let me choose a shop to go to, so I went to the bookshop and spent an hour reading books.

I also got to go swimming. I have lost a lot of swimming confidence recently so have gone back to using a woggle. I went to the library too.

I also saw Granny Val and Michael, they came round to see me with a birthday present. We had a little party, I got to eat all my favourite foods- olives, flat-fish burgers, smarties, hula hoops and chocolate finger biscuits! Yummy! I had a little birthday cake which was a caterpillar, I don't like cake so I picked the chocolate off and ate that instead!

Here I am making my imaginary 'Catswell' village. Catswell is a place where my cats all live, there is a swimming pool there, a zoo and lots of other things. I have made tickets to get to Catswell and built it out of Lego. I go to Catswell quite often, here I am sitting in the dark playing as it was night time there.

Here I am helping with dinner...

The Periodic Table

Daddy is a self confessed geek! He saw something on a TV programme recently that he just HAD to have....a periodic table shower curtain! So he bought it and it now hangs, in all it's multi-coloured glory, in the main bathroom!

Daddy's side of the family are all Sciencey, so I hope they like this video... the video was made as a joke, not because daddy has decided to teach me genetic engineering!

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My Aquarium and school update

Daisy's mummy had a a great idea the other day...Äiti felt a bit daft for not thinking of it herself, but...I made a fab aquarium. I got an old box, all my paints, my 'bits and pieces' box, my scissors and my Tropical Fish magazine. I painted pasta shells, stuck on bits of rice, raided the recycling box and cut out bits of my magazine. This was the finished result...

Aiti helped me spell 'Aquarium'. I thought my Q looked like a Ray, so I added a few more details to my sign. In the aquarium you can see a 'nook' (yoghurt pot) for the moray eel, rice for the krill that my whale will eat, lots of seaweed and coral, sea bed, flat fish on the sea bed and shells that I got when I went to Daisy's house. I used the pasta shells for the hermit crabs to live in.

I had a great day at school today. I read my 'Hermie the Hermit Crab' story to the class. I got a sticker from Mrs B (a Year 2 teacher) for reading so well. I made some lovely biscuits at school for Valentine's day; they were quite tasty! I also made a card for daddy and aiti. I joined in all my lessons this week and even sang a bit in music!

My first hand-written story

Here are some things that I did today... The first picture is of a story I wrote. It says "One day Tiger slept. He got up and said meow. by Sophie 2". Äiti told me about finger spaces so I put dots between the words! All the spellings are my own. This is my first ever hand-written story. I am really proud of my story.

The next picture is where I wanted to write some numbers. Äiti left me to it and when she came back I'd written up to 20 plus the words 'Mog Cat'. The typed story is one that I dictated to Äiti. It isn't very good but I kept telling äiti off for spelling words incorrectly. I told her which words I wanted in BOLD and that I wanted ... added. I knew when I needed plurals and when I needed a word changed.

I had a great weekend, I saw my friend Sylvie. We went to a big indoor playcentre. I had loads of fun pretending the whole climbing structure was an undersea world. I loved looking in the 'nooks and crannies'. Sylvie gave me a lovely present of some more Schleich animals. I have played with them lots.

Here is a photo that was taken of daddy's family when we were in Edinburgh last week. In the photo is daddy, Auntie Cat, me, Mike (friend of the family), Granny, Papa and Aiti...Noel took the photo.

Some new writing and school update

I couldn't go to school on Tuesday as I wasn't very well, I had been quite sick so Äiti said I had to stay at home. I was very upset and told Äiti that I wanted to do school things. She let me play on the laptop and this is what I did. I would tell Äiti what picture I wanted, we would then look for it on Google Images, I would then write a sentence about each picture. Sometimes Äiti would say a word slowly so that I could hear the sounds, but mainly this is my own work. I was really pleased with myself.

I only got to go to school twice this week but I had 2 great days. We have to go to another classroom for music every week, normally I sit and listen and don't join in. This week though I got up and did all the actions and according to Mrs G, I even sang! Äiti looked a little stunned when Mrs G told her. I made a penguin this week and drew some houses, the letter of the week was H. I am now really good at writing the letter h.

I'm looking forward to this weekend as I am going to see Sylvie again, I'm hoping she brings Catty.

My trip to Scotland

On Friday night we all went on an airplane to Edinburgh. We had rented an apartment with Granny and Papa, Auntie Cat and Noel. I spent most of Saturday being very tired and very whingy, Äiti didn't think my behaviour was good, but Granny and Papa thought it was fine! After a pizza lunch we went to an aquarium, this was excellent as it had loads of sharks, rays and seals. I was good at naming the all the fish. Back at the apartment we all watched the England-Wales rugby game, I entertained myself for 2 hours as I'm not overly interested in men playing with funny oval balls! Aiti and daddy went out for dinner with some friends in the evening so Granny and Papa babysat for me, I went to bed without any problems.

On Sunday Daddy went to Murrrayfield to watch Scotland lose their rugby match to France. I went on the train to my friend Daisy's house. We had a lot of fun walking round their local town, looking for shells on the beach and playing at her house. Daisy has 2 little sisters called Ruby (nearly 2yrs) and baby Isla who is 2 weeks old. I wasn't too happy when Aiti held Isla! Daisy and I played very well together, we were quite influential on each other. On the train home I talked non-stop about Daisy and I'd really like to see her again.

We flew home late Sunday evening, I eventually fell asleep in the car at 11pm.

The first picture was a diagram I drew and labelled for Äiti. I was showing her something we'd done at school...we had eggs and soldiers (toast) because we were learning about the letter E. The middle photo is me making an obstacle course for myself and any willing cats. I used daddy's cable hiders and I had to jump over them or race the cats. The last photo is just a cute one of my cats. Sometimes they love each other, other times they fight lots!