Reading and Recipes

J is seven years old and has, in the last year, ‘discovered’ reading. She has transformed into a moany, whiny monster who I had to cajole to read into a complete bookwork with a thirst for more stories!

We go to our local library at least once a week, often twice, and get new books for them both. A recent favourite series is the Bake A Wish series, which is all about two children who bake with their Grandma. Every recipe they try makes them feel better in some way – braver, stronger, less grumpy… the latest one was Get Better Jelly, which helped with a sore throat. When we finished the book, J claimed she had a sore throat (ahem!) so needed to make the jelly.

It’s regular strawberry jelly, but made with lemonade so it has a very sugary fizz to it. J enjoyed making it and we all enjoyed eating it!

The finished book and the finished recipe!

More Anatomy and Some Cooking

We have added to our body drawing over the last couple of days. The body (still to be named!) now has a hinge joint on its left elbow and a moving skeletal muscle model on its right. We have also added a heart and a spine, complete with vertebrae, discs and a spinal cord.

Demonstrating a ball and socket joint using a piece of paper, a hockey ball and a margarita glass! And a spray of olive oil to represent the synovial fluid.

The Body is looking more complete

Creative snack time!

Playing on an anatomy app

K has been reading recipe  books this week and announced she wanted to cook dinner tonight! We made a trip to Tesco to buy ingredients and she took over the kitchen to produce, from scratch, lamb kebabs with home made tomato dip and rice and broccoli, followed by caramel shortbread.

Junior Masterchef!

The finished product.

It was fabulous!

We found just enough room for this, too!

Now all I have to do is the washing up. Oh My. The washing up!!! It’s all worth it though.