Life with Olivia

That’s today’s word!
My mum really hates her photo being taken and Adam was asleep and really grumpy in bed so they wouldn’t let me take their photo!
So I took another one of Maisy instead. It’s a bit blurry because she was cleaning herself at the time! She’s sitting in one of her favourite corners. It’s behind the computer cupboard door right next to all my DVDs!

I wanted to take a photo of my friends at drama but mum wouldn’t let me take the camera on my own!

Today’s photo prompt is eye. Guess what I took a photo of?

My cat Maisy!
Adam had gone out to play football and mum was washing her hair.
So most of this morning I’ve been playing with Maisy and taking photos of her too.

I think now I’m going to look at the Space Mission CD rom. I didn’t get a chance to yesterday. I’ll let you know if it’s any good!

The last time I did my blog it was last Saturday! That’s over a week ago!!
But we have been quite busy and when I wanted to do my blog I had to go to bed.
So today mum promised that I could spend as long as I want to do my blog and put some photos in aswell!

Here goes!!!

Saturday 3 Februaury
Setsubun
This was only yesterday and we did lots of Japanese things. I made some paper dolls.

They were lots of fun to do. It was a bit lke doing origami. This is my favourite!

Setsubun is bean-scattering day so I threw some beans out of the front door and shouted “Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!” It was so embarrassing!

It means “Out with devils! In with good fortune!” Most of the books and websites we looked at the translation was a little bit different. Some said “Devils out! Luck in!” or sometimes it was ‘happiness’.
We watched Howl’s Moving Castle. It was brilliant! I absolutely loved it! I really liked the music aswell. I did a page in my scrapbook aswell.

Friday 2 February
Groundhog Day
Today was Groundhog day. We were going to watch the film but it didn’t come in time.
We looked at some videos on youtube and read about Punxsutawney Phil. He’s really old. He drinks a special drink every year that makes him live for another seven years but I’ve forgotten how old he is now! I made a pop up groundhog. Here’s a page from my scrapbook.

Thursday 1 February
Paignton Zoo
We went to the zoo today with our group called Free Range Learning. We had to get up early and catch the train to Paignton. I loved the zoo! There were loads of peacocks!

My favourite animal is the giraffe. I drew a picture of one on the train coming home. I did some worksheets about endangered animals. Here’s the page in my scrapbook about it.

It’s got tickets and pictures of most of the animals we saw. Mum got them off the internet because our photos weren’t very good.

Wednesday 31 January
Storytelling and drama
We went to storytelling at the library. It was mostly children I know so it was fun to see everyone. Two of the stories were quite freaky! A bit scary actually!
But we got to see some things from the museum. My favourite was the big fan. It came from Africa. We went to Hawkins Bazaar with Lisa and got some things. We got a magic garden, a zen garden and a window bird feeder. Then we had to go back to the library and Mum saw M and R’s coats that they had left behind. We were on our bikes so we couldn’t take them home and our bags were already full! We gave them to Claire instead and she phoned Lisa straight away for us. Then we went to drama. My friend Stephanie gave me a little Scooby Doo activity book. So that was kind of her.

Tuesday 30 January
We rode our bikes into town. I got some more geomags. I bought a video in the library. It’s a Famous Five one! I love Enid Blyton! Mum bought lots more in Lush!

Monday 29 January
Okehampton
We went to the group in Okehampton today. But we had an old timetable so we missed the first bus!
Barbara let me borrow her daughters bike. Lisa and the girls came too. We got some lovely food in Waitrose in Okehampton. Mum moaned that she spent too much money!

Sunday 28 January
Shakespeare
I made a big Elizabethan theatre. It’s got all the characters from A Midsummers Night Dream and the script too. I had to work out all the stage directions and where the characters have to enter. I really liked it. It was so much fun!
Mum made a little Globe theatre. I really want to go and see the real one in London. Maisy liked watching the play!

I made some other models from a website too. There is also some fairy furniture that I really want to make!
We watched Henry V. I didn’t like the battle scenes. They were gruesome! I had to hide under mums duvet!

And that was my week!!!
My back is really aching now because it has taken me hours to write all this!
I think I might go and play with some of my geomags now and put my bird feeder on my window.
See you later!!

….for 2 days!
That’s the longest since I started my blog!
On Sunday I did some workbooks. In the afternoon we watched Swan Lake. It was a ballet. I love ballet but I haven’t done it for ages. Last year me and mum went to see a ballet at the Northcott Theatre. It was brilliant!!
Yesterday I did some more workbooks. Fractions in the morning. And english when we came back from town. They both took me ages to do.
I made dinner last night. We had sausages that I made out of Burgermix.

I liked them but it was weird because they tasted just like burgers!
This morning I have been on the computer. I think these hamsters are really funny!! I don’t understand why the cream one keeps getting on if he doesn’t like it!!
They really make me laugh out loud!
Here are some pictures of Maisy. I really love her to bits!

I love the way she’s leaning against the back of the sofa!
We’re going to Di’s house in a minute and we’re going to ride our bikes! But mum has to get the washing out first!