Summer is here!

The last few months seemed to have passed us by a little, but thankfully summer is in full swing. We have been in the process of a complicated house move where everything possible seems to have gone wrong. However life goes on and after a few stressful weeks we are back on track, despite still living in our tiny flat, we are making the most of it.

Building sandcastles with his friend

I am thankful for where we live, having the option to up and just go and sit on the beach has saved us many times from fed up children. We appreciate the beach is not for everyone, as we have not always enjoyed it. A turning point for us was learning each persons tolerance, for example we know mum dislikes having sand on her hands. To combat mums intolerance we take out wipes a small towel and a spare bottle of water. Eagle really really ‘hates’ having mud on his hands (you know the kind of mud he has to go out of his way to get there. The kind of mud that without the sea is a nightmare to get off) … well we learnt to read a tide timetable for this reason. Now of course he absolutley loves swimming in the sea and his fearlessness is inspiring. Dove gets upset and grumpy when it is too hot, so we do try our best to go during cooler times and Dad just wants to get a tan but of course we live in England!

Despite some of these quirky stressors we always have a great time, we are great believers in the more you do something the easier it becomes and now we would not want to live any where else, (except if you ask Dad, he would say we are moving to Canada).

Happy beach days to all and may we all increase our tolerance for things! ⛱️

Mud Fun!

Who doesn’t love getting super messy?

The kids just had so much fun with a messy day at the beach …

Mud Beach Fun

We originally went to see the sunset after having a lazy day inside. After about half an hour talking about the sunset and taking some beautiful photographs they walked out onto the mud. They were having the best time mud skating and falling over and I managed to get some beautiful and fun photography of them with big messy smiles.


Beautiful April Sunset


April brings some amazing opportunities and we always have the best time. It’s just warm enough to go for evening outings and not too hot to appreciate the afternoon beach and high tides make for awesome paddling.

I feel like there is so much around us to learn from, today we watched some young Sand Piper’s playing together in the evacuating tide.

Happy April!

LSF 🌅

Can you count? – Counting Nature

At first I found it took a lot of thinking to come up with small tasks to encourage and develop learning particularly maths. Then it occurred to me that numbers are everywhere.

We go for a walk almost every day, usually this is a short round the corner to the park, but we do try and get out for at least 30 minutes. Last week we came across a really big conifer tree right around the corner. Eagle began picking them up and I decided we should make it into a counting game, so we collected all the pinecones we could see and made a big pile.

Counting Pinecones

There are 15 pinecones here, although if you ask Eagle he will tell you there are 7. Seven seems to be his go to number, maybe his lucky number?

It is wonderful to watch him count and he can confidently count in order up to ten so maybe next time I wont overload him and keep it simple.

He enjoyed collecting and ordering the physical material and I really think this helped him to focus on the counting. We now try to find things we can count every time we are outside.


Counting Daffodils in Spring

We are very lucky to be surrounded with parks. Eagle is so gentle with the flowers and now he enjoys counting them too!

To extend this activity further we have been to the beach to collect rocks. I plan on presenting them as Montessori inspired shelf activities, counting, sorting, cleaning, ect. I think that bringing nature indoors can work wonderfully especially on days when it may be more difficult to get out.

Happy Counting guys!

LSF 🌱