Abi's Adventures

My home education journey

  • Nature at home

    I love living in Wales, I love living at Bron Y Glyn, our house. We have so much nature in our garden. Today I watched:

    • a baby Great Spotted Woodpecker being fed
    • a family of mallards on pond
    • the Canada Geese attacking ducklings, we actually found 2 dead ducklings on the side of the pond. Daddy thinks they starved as they were really thin.
    • we found a moorhen’s nest, I quickly picked one up to see if it was warm, which it was and then we put it back and left quickly so as not to disturb them too much.

  • Clothes Washing

    Our washing machine has broken and it leaked all over the garage floor. It is only 3 months old, so Currys are sending out an engineer to look at it.

    Daddy showed me how to wash clothes in our bath. We added some washing powder and gave it a good mix around. Then we let the clothes soak for an hour or so and we kept mixing the clothes around and rubbing them together.

    Finally we let the water out, we rinsed the clothes several times in clean water before wringing as much water out as possible.

    We then put the wet clothes on a clothes airer in the greenhouse to dry.

  • Rooks, Crows & Jackdaws

    I can now tell the difference between crows, rooks, jackdaws and blackbirds.

    – They are all the colour black

    • They are all black
    • Crows, Rooks and Jackdaws are all covids
    • Magpies, Ravens, Jays and Choughs are also covids.
    • Rooks have a light lump above their beak
    • Jackdaws are smaller with a greyish patch on the top of their heads
    • Ravens are the biggest covids
    • Male Blackbirds are black all over with an orange beak, female blackbirds are brown.

  • Writing Practice

    We made a list of all different dinosaurs that I have. Mummy wrote them neatly and I copied them underneath in my best hand writing.

  • Candle Maker

    Whilst at Lynton we had a look in a candle makers shop. You could see the workshop area behind where there was a man making candles.

    Candles are made from wax and the string in the centre is called the wick.

    Candles can be scented and come in all different shapes, sizes and colours.

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  • Walking the Valley of Rocks

    From Lynton we walked down to the Valley of Rocks and spent a while walking along the cliff path and climbing up some of the big rocks. Then we saw two mountain goats on the cliff below us. It was amazing how they could hold onto the rocks so easily.

    When we returned to the car park, there was a herd of about 30 goats casually eating the grass by the cars. Some of them had kids with them which were really cute. One naughty kid had even climbed up onto the stone wall.

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  • Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway

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  • Playing in Plymouth

    We had a day in Plymouth and I enjoyed playing in the sea, the waves were really splashy.

    We took the ferry from Mount Batten with our bicycles and cycled around. We saw:

    • Smeatons Tower
    • The Messenger statue
    • The Elizabethan Gardens
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  • Bodmin Museum

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  • Visiting St Ives & Healeys Cyder Farm

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