Showing posts with label Soil Mechanics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soil Mechanics. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

We've Been...



... digging for dinosaurs, creating with Lego, reading, reading and more reading, cuisinairing, mask colouring, planting and watering and asking many questions too numerous to list and some for which I did not have the answer!  Daddy is a fount of knowledge so we always defer to him otherwise Yahoo makes a reasonable alternative!  Here are some pics from the past week:





Pip has two main areas of "learning" at the moment.  First up his her speech, she babbles loads and attempts to make words, mama, dada, rara (for sara), bir (bird), boo bear  and she loves singing the first bit of row, row the boat.  The second area is her physical development, not only can she  climb onto the window bottom, fire guard and play kitchen, she has now worked out how to get onto the dining room chairs.  Hmm, so all the stuff we normally pile into the the middle of the table will now have to find a permanent home elsewhere.  I'm seriously considering letting her loose in the garden all day and she can attempt to climb the trees instead of the furniture!  I thought our Sara was fearless but Pip wins the gold cup hands down!  Still, you cannot be cross with her, especially when she usually looks like this:




Oh to be a toddler, what fun! 



   

Sunday, 14 March 2010

End of Week Round Up

On Thursday Benedict studied Soil Mechanics, he investigated how the internal friction of soil particles contributed towards slope stability.  He also looked into the difference between compaction and consolidation and also the difference between porosity and permeability.








With the help of our friend Fiona he made Mother's Day Cards for the two Nanna's.  They were greatly appreciated:








On Friday we visited Uncle Bernard and Grandad.  We had an indoor picnic which was great:





Enjoying sandwiches, crackers, boiled eggs, cucumber and tomatoes.



We then went to the seaside and collected a variety of rocks for identification.





Benedict feeding the horses.




Uncle Bernard admiring the horses, he was cross because he'd forgotten the mints to give them!