Ballet, Lego & Gardens

Today we caught the train and went into Melbourne central.  We started at the Art Centre where we went to see an edu ballet session titled The Baron and the Widow which was a 60 min narrated performance with exerpts from The Merry Widow ballet.
 It was so beautiful inside, red velvet and polished brass.  The curtains on the stage were a rich red with a gold picture frame.  The stage scenes were so beautifully rich.  Unfortunately no camera's allowed :(  The costumes of the ballet dancers were gorgeous. I wanted to know what do you call the male lead ballet dancer ?  A Danseur.

The Arts Centre - Melbourne Australia

After this Sir N and I joined another family and went to the gardens accross the road for a picnic lunch.

From here we walked accross the road and had a look at the glass wall with water flowing down it at the National Gallery of Victoria.

 We then walked to Federation Square and had a look around.

The Art of the Brick Exhibition

Built by Ryan McNaught approx 172 500 pieces.

By Aaron Amanetkis Approx 15 000 pieces
Won 1st place at Brickvention 2007 for the best in show.

We had a wonderful day out exploring the sights and sounds of Melbourne. 

End of year Sales

I have noticed that some of the Australian Home School Supply companies are having end of year sales.

Here are two I know of click on the graphic and it will link you over:

 And a closing down sale with some great treasures in the second hand section

Please let me know if there are any others so I can edit and add them here

Today we made a: Passport

I am so excited.  I have decided to do Expidition Earth: A Journey through God's World with Sir N over the next year. I will be doing this alongside Sonlight A with K readers 5 day program, We will officially be starting on Monday. New Zealand will be our first port of entry!



Free expansion packs and Samples

• Expediton Earth Discovering God's Animals
• Expedition Earth Discovering God's Animals Blank line version
• All about Expedition Earth Discovering God's Animals
• Continental Hop Scotch Game from Spell Out Loud
• SAMPLE of Expedition Earth: Brazil Week

  

Passport to travel Expedition Earth!

Cover of Expedition Earth passport and real passport

Today we made a passport.  We took out our real New Zealand passports (Uruwhenuwa)  and had a look at them and talked about what we need when we travel from one country to another.

Next I went to 'quickly' make a cover, front page and second page on the pc ....  (Quickly turned into a two hour marathon, I'm out of practice with publisher) lesson learned don't attempt to do complex things when you only have a few min rather reschedule for the evening once little people are in bed..Erica does provide a page for you to make into your own by printing off bits and pieces but I wanted to make an all in one page to print and Nathaniel enjoyed finding the different letters on keyboard to type in his name and details

I have made a New Zealand Passport and an Australian Passport and Erica has given me permission to file share them here.  These  are in pdf. format and you can download and print them from my Google drive.

  

Click here to download the New Zealand Passport

Click here to download the Australian Passport

Our flag stamps and the ID page of N' passport

I am quite pleased with the end result :) What do you think ?