Day 97

30th March 2022

Dragons

Today at Ocean School we were asked the question,

“Do you believe in dragons?”

Some said yes, some said no.

We read a book about the weedy dragon which is found in the southern parts of Australia at depths of up to 50 meters.

They are very hard to see because they can camouflage so well in the seaweed.

The colour of a weedy dragon depends on where they live.

In Tasmania seadragons are reddish with deep blue, purple and yellow.

In other waters their main colour is yellow.

They live for around 7 years.

Mila piped up at this point with,

“I would have already been married and had babies!” 😂

Unlike most other sea animals, male seadragons are the ones who become pregnant, incubate and hatch eggs.

(The mums liked this one!)

Lara had brought in a weedy dragon’s skeleton, and we passed it around and imagined what it would have looked like with all its ‘weedy’ like appendages.

After our chat, it was time to hit the water.

Today was a bit different, with the kids being put through their paces with a free-dive triathlon.

They had to do their breath holds while doing 10 star-jumps!

Then, run into the water and swim out to the buoy and back.

Finally, they had to do a series of lunges along the beach and then run back to the circle.

I was so proud of Mila for competing. She really enjoyed it.

Lincoln took a wander along the beach with another diver looking for Port Jackson shark eggs, desperate to find one with a shark still inside.

They didn’t find one, but they did find lots of eggs.

Lino Printing

Tomorrow, Liam is taking them to a friend’s place to do some lino printing.

My job today, was to make sure they had completed their drawing.

We looked up lino printing to understand what we were doing and then looked for some inspiration.

Seeing as Lincoln is half dog, he chose a wolf.

He took inspiration from a picture he found online and drew his wolf freehand.

I love the ‘Banksyness’ of this!

I can’t wait to see how they turn out.

Mila is half cat and so naturally, she chose a cat.

She says she’s not happy with it yet and is playing around with perhaps putting in a background.

She says she’s thinking of a stripy tail.

After art class, they had their scheduled 1 hour of computer time which gave me a block of free time and my beautiful friend came over for a cuppa.

Soooo nice to see her!!

And that wraps up another day of home-school. 😁