Quinta do Seixo

Our end of year trip.

The day started with some traditional games:

Jogo da Malha'

Sweets in flour

A real egg on a spoon

Sack race


Pick your own raspberries

Lunch time

Cleaning our teeth after lunch!

We had some time on the slide.

During the night these turkey chicks hatched.
You can still see the egg shells.

Feeding the goats. The kid just watched.

This was a lovely ride!

A peaceful walk to end the day!

What a long day! - What a great day it was!

The Lighthouse Keeper's lunch

The story: (click on the image)

Reception Bears walked down to the 
Forte de São João da Foz to understand 
the importance of a lighthouse on the safe 
navigation of ships and sailboats.

After the walk, nothing like a lighthouse keeper's sandwich.

Now, some time for sketching. 

 All done for today,
we are on our way 
back to school. 
We were able 
to name the landmarks
in this shop window.

These were some of our sketches:

by Lourenço




with sound effects 
by Maria




with the brick work
by Constança








an aerial view
by João

Our pictures, in colour, back at school

High in the Sky

Where does the sky start? Where does the sky end?

Who cannot remember folding

 paper planes as a child?

Viarco and Paper Mill

Viarco
is possibly the smallest pencil factory in the world.
We were able to see the various stages of pencil making (as they were made 100 years ago.

Find out more here

The responsible
for keeping this 
project a 
living 
museum.
Thank you









Museu do Papel
On the same day, we visited the The Paper Mill, 
where we could see how paper used to be made.
It is a beautiful place, renovated with care.
We wished we could have stayed there longer.

The water that makes the mill go round

The materials used - cloth made from natural fibers

The drying room was followed by the packing and paper bag making areas.

We will need to go back to see how paper is made today!

Gruffalo Feast

Planned, made lists and went shopping!

Our fist meal was the OWL PANCAKE for our morning snack

The main feast:
PIZZA MICE FACES

ROASTED FOX

WRAPPED SNAKE

OWL CHICKS

SCRAMBLED SNAKE

To add to all this we added a LOGPILE HOUSE,

POISONOUS WARTS,

PURPLE PRICKLE JUICE and

FOXES' TEARS.

Snack before home time: CHEESY MICE and MOUSE TAILS

CHOCOLATE GRUFFALO and 

GRUFFALO TUSKS with MOUSE DROPPINGS

The party continued the next day with GRUFFALO CRUMBLE

and OWL SCREECHES (lemon juice)

And finally OWL ICE CREAM and GRUFFALO CLAWS