Scissor Skills and Latin

E loves any excuse to use scissors. Here's a heart she cut out when she learnt the Latin word 'Amo':

 

We've taken a break from working through our 'learn Latin' book and are just picking up new words from songs like this for now. This one is still our favourite.

 

As I said, E loves to use scissors. She's still getting the hang of cutting well, so I bought her a book called "More Cutting Skills". The Mr photocopied all the pages for us. She has only done the first two exercises as yet, but is having great fun with it.

 

Vale, for now.

 

-Polly

Learning Latin

Another book that we bought recently is "Getting Started with Latin," by William E. Linney. No-one in our family has ever studied Latin before, so we plan to work through the book at a snail's pace. That way even 2-year-old E can keep up. Here's an activity that we did after learning the Latin word for 'sailor':

We made basic origami sailboats and little cardboard sailors to sit in them. Here's the folding instructions:

 



We have also watched this [three pigs] cute video a few times. It's fun to watch even if you aren't learning Latin.

vale!

-Polly

Papercraft

E and I have both been busy with various crafts, many of which I won't be sharing because they were made as gifts that haven't been sent out yet. We don't want to spoil the surprise! Also, we recently bought some new woodworking tools. Yay, another new hobby for me. :)

Some crafts that I will share are some more of the paper toys that I've made. My favourite so far, and the most detailed that I've done, is the caterpillar from Constructing Wonderland by Alex McMenemy:

I've also made a Viking (found here)...

and I've made a rabbit from this set.

For a slightly different papercraft, I found this tutorial for an origami bow and made one as a cute embellishment on a wrapped gift.

-Polly