And Nathalie’s here for it.
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Spring Crafts
April, a time for blossoms, feeding the birds and sweet spring crafts.
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Jellyfish!
On our last two visits, Silverstrand has been covered in jellyfish.
Such ethereal, otherworldly looking creatures.
They didn’t stop this kiddo from racing around the place – so impressed at his ability to dodge them at speed!
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Rescuing a starfish
Today we got to be real-life Octonauts! Ari was splashing around in a tide pool and we spotted a large starfish slowly moving around on the sand. The pool was already dozens of meters from the receding tide, so we sounded the Octo-alert and in the absence of a sweet Tweak-designed GUP, we managed to rustle up a watertight bin from the car and relocate the starfish to somewhere safer.
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Photowalk Scavenger Hunt: Signs of Spring
Ari, Ada and I went for a walk today in Barna Woods. When we got out of the car and I got Ada settled into her sling, I handed Ari his camera and told him we were going to have a little scavenger hunt: he had to take photos of as many signs of spring as possible!
A quick note about image quality – we prioritised usability over image quality for Ari's camera. We bought it for him when he was three years old, and that made sense at the time. Seeing these shots and watching how carefully he took them, I think it's clear that he's struggling against the limitations of the camera.
This is what he grabbed (captions by Ari):
It’s a thornbush! 
Flowers! 
A lake! 
Berries! 
Buds! 
More buds! 
…more buds… 
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Question: Stations
Ari does “stations” at school, which is how academic learning is handled for junior infants. My question for him today was: What was an interesting thing you learned today during stations?
Not all shapes can roll.
Ari, 5Pretty good takeaway tbh.
