Our first morning at Coffs Barbour and the kids are excited to explore our rather basic holiday home, however they manage to find a few boardgames: star wars monopoly and cleudo (‘clue’ in Canada) which were a huge hit! They also spent a lot of time sliding down the carpeted stairs on their bottoms! We […]
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Our next stop was South West Rocks, a small town with a beautiful estuary. After a stop for lunch where the kids kept themselves entertained with ‘magic trucks’, the kids joined a very fit grandma and her daughter for a soccer game. Then they ran to cool off in the shallow waters before we had […]
This school hols we decided to brave a road trip with the kids somewhere a bit warmer after a rather long winter! We booked a house in Coffs Barbour, about 6 hours drive north of Sydney, and planned to stay one night near Taree on the way up. It worked out quite well as we […]
The music program for years 1 and 2 put on a great show for us parents demonstrating what they’ve learned. For once Tomas was in the first row! I took many videos, some of which I’ll email at some stage.
What a great event at our local Council run Environment Park – a great green space. The kids enjoyed examining marine creatures and various specimens, a performance by a recycling magician / entertainer and paining lively parasols. Tomas holds a sea urchin. Table of cool marine stuff to touch. There’s Ethan’s friend Marcus hiding behind […]
A beach date – exploring the blue bottles that had washed ashore and anything else they could find in the sand. And playing a game of guess what au found!
Ethan just loves his school, R.O.C.K. – on this day they had paper plane races. If I can upload a video later I will – it’s pretty cute! His best bud is Marcus (pronounced Mahh-cus, not Marr-cus) in the green shirt. Ethan also signs his name every morning as part of the kids’ new routine. […]