Day 8
14th October 2021
GRAFFITI ART – Let Them Spray!
Last year we bought a fixer-upper & have joined the ranks of DIYers across the country, schlepping out to Bunnings on Saturday’s to purchase paint & supplies etc. We love it!
Our back fence needs replacing and so what better place to start our spray paint adventure, than in our own backyard.
In our home school learning, we’ve been talking about Tiddalick the frog (http://thehomeschoolyear.com/Tiddalick) from the Aboriginal Dreamtime story and we thought, he would look pretty good right about there, on the back fence!
When we bought the spray cans, Lincoln made a joke that it was ok for him to purchase a cross bow, but it was illegal for him to purchase a can of spray paint. 😂
Smart kid.
It was fun, fun, fun!!!
Apparently, our frog faces are excellent!
The big street artist!
Now we have our very own Tiddalick, we have spoken about putting a slide in front of Tiddalick’s mouth and sliding down onto a slip and slide!
There was also talk about putting in a frog pond! Anything goes at home school.
We’ll keep you posted on that.
Oh, and you know how you think your kids are never listening or paying attention?
This was their graffiti art.
RIP
Wonder where they got that from?
Chasing Waterfalls
Liam had planned to take them to a waterfall today, so last night the kids & I agreed to do a little Maths & English in the morning & then after art, they would be free to take off with Dad for the rest of the day.
This was perfect for me as I was working from home and had to tick off a tonne of stuff around the house.
I didn’t get an update all day, and then I finally heard them pull up around 7pm.
They got lost.
There was no waterfall.
They looked shattered.
They collapsed at the table and told me the story.
“What happened?” I asked.
“We must have walked for 3 hours.” Liam said. “Through thick bush, good enough for a kangaroo.”
Lincoln pipes up, “It was scratching our face!”
Mila “We all got squelch foot” (That’s our name for when someone walks in a deep puddle and has a squelchy wet sock, for the rest of the day.)
Mila said, “I was so wet, I didn’t even bother walking around the puddles.”
Liam, “And there were hundreds of leeches!” He pulled up his shorts and his legs were streaked with blood. (Eww)
He said, “I must have gotten no fewer than 30 leeches. Linc too, he got smashed!”
I said “What went wrong?”
He said, they walked down a road for what seemed like hours & they lost phone signal, so no maps.
Then someone said, “This looks like a track here.”
They followed the scrappy bush track to nowhere for another hour, at least. (Mila says.)
I said, “When did you realise you had gone the wrong way?”
“I think we all knew deep down.” Liam said. (Haha)
Lincoln said, “We walked for 15 kilometres through treacherous, heart breaking bush. I was scratched by over 300 different bushes!”
It was so funny hearing them tell the story. Their tired little faces.
Liam said the kids were great. Linc was a little disappointed but they got on with it, & finally made the trek back to the car.
No waterfall today. 😥
They were promised this…
They got leeches, rain, fog & lost – A true adventure!
Home School Win
I chalk this up to an epic win. Lots of resilience, always prepare, don’t rely on technology, not knowing when you will make your way back has gotta be what, tenacity? Working as a team. A shared experience. A funny story.
Experiences with leeches! 😂😂😂
I also really like the fact that this was a motley crew of:
- A 7 year old.
- An 8 year old.
- A 10 year old.
- Two 18 year olds.
- A 23 year old.
- Two dads.
“Home school kids hang out with people of all ages. They learn from lots of different people.”
In regular school, they tend to only hang out with kids their exact age. There isn’t even a lot of cross over between the years.
Watching a couple of 18 year olds, goof off and mess around while lost in the wet and the fog is good role modelling for younger kids. They learn so much from that.
They all had fun, just being lost together.
