I keep thinking I’ve cried about enough and then someone says something nice, or I catch the eye of another member of the family and I’m crying all over again. Then again, we did difficult things today - went to the funeral home and saw the body in a coffin. I really didn’t want to [...]
English is too hard to read for children | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk
Monkey, asparagus, spinach, caterpillar, dwarf, banana, handkerchief, pliers, soldiers, stomach, petal and telescope have all been included on the long list of words that baffle children because they contain letter combinations that are more commonly pronounced in a different way.
Interesting article that suggests [...]
end of first week with new member of staff on board - we’ve got by through quite a challenging week so that’s gone fairly well. I’m beginning to feel on top of classroom management on some days - for some reason Thursday seems to go a bit pear shaped, obviously need to work harder then. [...]
when you leave your laptop switched off
It’s still switched off. I’m borrowing Tim’s machine, while he’s out shopping and the grots are bathing. I’ve really enjoyed the freedom, haven’t felt that the day got away from me at all. Well, apart from the first hour or so I spent sleeping [...]
I had so many good intentions today. Well, at least I got the car serviced
Let’s see. I wanted to clear out bits of the dining room - Tim managed to hoover in there at least. I pulled a couple of bits out and I have a big pile of stuff [...]
Now, how long is it going to be before I join the select crew of Wizard Whimstaff results in google?
Tim took Big out today, and they went to wilkos and bought Wizard Whimstaff’s Hilarious Handwriting (aka Basic Skills: Handwriting: Ages 6-7 (Basic Skills)) and his Toady Times Tables: Magical Skills Level 1 (Magical [...]
this morning, Small has learnt from numberjacks that 6 can be split into two 3s. (I’m not going to promise that he knows he can do that with six things mind )
Big is sitting on the floor counting her money and exchanging pounds in change for pound coins. Her arithmetic is improving [...]
to claim the day has improved? Perhaps I’d better stick with it’s improving
After a traumatic half hour on Small’s part, when someone mentioned lunch to him, and he realised he hadn’t had breakfast (it *was* offered, but he was too busy being read to, then drawing, then dancing :roll:) and of course, [...]
why Big doesn’t get to do anything much else once she starts on writing. 15 minutes in, and we’ve got once sentence written out.
30 minutes reading took 45 today by the time she’d fallen off the sofa, crawled around the room and so on.
Yesterday I worked from home. The break from driving was much appreciated!
Kirsty came by and dropped A off while she took M to the dentist, and despite the fact it was ages since my two had seen A they all disappeared off upstairs, and were neither seen nor heard until about 5.45, when they [...]
Our children are morning ppl. Tim and I are night owls. This has often resulted in the children getting up and breakfasting and watching tv on their own and us staggering down an hour or two later, which then sets the pattern for a bad day.
Wanting to break the pattern, we’ve decided that [...]
You may recall a few weeks ago that I was pondering making a few things. So far I’ve made a hat, out of really rather gorgeous wool, as I said I’d started a little while back. Today Big and I branched out into the wired bead crochet. Well, OK, the first one [...]
handy at least!
It’s not quite 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning. The tv is playing to itself (must replace it with music). Big is sitting at the newly cleared art table doing more parchment embossing and decorating. Small is doing a paint by numbers at the dining room table. Apparently all [...]
we have shoes, well actually boots, for Big. I’ve lost count of how many shoe shops we’ve been in and didn’t even try to count how many pairs of shoes we’ve tried on - it’s taken 3 weekends to sort this out! And then, icing on the cake, machine refused my credit card! [...]
Blogging with Opera Mini, a mobile phone and T-Mobile web and walk. A about o2 call centre coming soon…
courtesy of 1000 Playthinks
Found this the other night when I was tidying, and decided I’d inflict it on Big. Expected her to wail and moan and wriggle, instead she practically ripped it out of my hand and we started working through the puzzles difficulty level 1. We got to one about [...]
Tonight Big read Night You Were Born (Orchard Picturebooks) to me. We got it at the library earlier this week, when they were selling off lots of books, 6 for £1. And as you know, we’ve a shortage of books here
Anyway, tonight we talked about punctuation marks, I said things like [...]
Today we went to Roche Abbey
We played hide and seek
Admired the spots on a ladybird
Threw Pooh sticks
And waited for them to reappear
… and Small has learnt to play with the stream…
Today we went to Bolsover Castle. It is only two villages away, so of course, we haven’t been there in the six years since we moved here. Signed up for family membership to English Heritage while we were there (15 months for the price of 12).
High point for Big was the tree, which is a [...]
I have only ever been on the North Norfolk Railway and to a couple of museums including a trip long ago to the National Rail Museum in York so our trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway was pretty exciting for me as well as the smalls.
The railway extends south-west from Keighley in [...]