After a couple of days off working due to our hectic social life I was quite pleased with the children’s attitudes yesterday. Small did a sheet on telling time, plus a maths practice, and some reading, while Big did some copywork – writing over a poem printed out in jardotted which only elicited [...]
Tuesday was Forest School, which surprised me as it has more often been on Thursdays before. Just as well I’d checked my calendar an evening or two before, otherwise we’d have missed it completely, and that would have been very annoying.
So I dragged children out of bed early (for them anyway) and chivvied them along [...]
I have been waiting since January for my children to deschool, stop watching endless CBBC or playing on mind numbing websites, for them to show and develop some interests and learn to get along instead of screeching and bickering all day.
I’ve run out of patience
Maybe I don’t respond in the right way [...]
First day of the new system, it appears that the children had a rather different idea to how it was going to work than I did. Our system doesn’t involve boxes per child prestacked with work – I’m nowhere near that organised, and I doubt I ever will be. Instead their boxes have pictures that [...]
Didn’t have a good night’s sleep last night, so was reluctant to start the day today. Am told by Tim that I missed Small strumming his guitar this morning, but there you go.
Once I was down and breakfasted, the whole family collaborated over yet another Science School project, this time he wanted to make a [...]
Occasionally, it rains here. Sometimes it rains quite a lot. Saturday was a rainy day – every now and then it dropped a lot of water, and then there were dry patches.
Small is taking off with his Science School book. (Link to what appears to be updated edition, Science School) I can’t recommend this book [...]
Get the feeling that when Big gets back Small is going to go into serious computer withdrawal. Left to his own devices I think he would just educate himself entirely autonomously by exploring the internet until he understood it all.
Anyway, we started out the morning by going to the doctors for Small’s follow up appt [...]
Kirsty and co up and offed before lunchtime today – with James having work commitments he wanted at least some afternoon at home. The kids had done really well together, Small particulary enjoyed boy playtime I think A and Big do hit it off too though, loved the times when they were running [...]
As we are now close to the beach, it’s rather a draw for small visitors, so a beach trip was in order for Saturday. It took the adults (namely me!) a while to get going, so it was nearly lunchtime by the time we headed out, but we took fruit and water, crisps and sun [...]
Thursday was hot. So hot that I decided it was probably just as well that we weren’t going to the cloth place as well as Small’s Beaver sausage sizzle, as it would probably be way too much for them.
So instead we had a quiet day at home, apart from the screaming There were [...]
Today we had a day round at WF house planned, with added science experiments. So I got up at 8 to sort out contribution to bring and share lunch, as well as sorting out washing and so on. In the end my lunch contribution was courtesy of the coop, I am always somewhat uninspired, and [...]
The children are thrilled with the presence of L, their big sister, and consequently ignored my existence all yesterday morning. Not a big problem as far as I’m concerned It’s great that they adore us so much, and lovely that she reciprocates
By lunchtime though I was trying to wrangle them into [...]
Having done the classic thing of waiting for my deadline to finish my TMA work, I really needed to get stuck in this morning. Which of course meant that the children picked up on this desire to do otherwise than pay them attention, and they were all over me and the living room in annoying [...]
Victorions
Where we live
Math’s
Spelling
Sionce
a new langwig?
Craft
Poetry
Accordingly, her library haul included two books on toys, Toys (What Was It Like in the Past?)
and Look Inside a Victorian Toyshop.
I found Seashore (Usborne Nature Trail) which I thought might help with learning more of the area around where we live, and I must get around to ordering the ACE [...]
During the day, Small in particular often asks peculiar questions or indulges in brief conversations that seem like they’ve gone nowhere, but then days or weeks later crop up again in his thinking. There is no way that I can track all of these, but a couple have stood out over the last two days, [...]
With Big due to go to Brownies tonight, thought I ought to go out and get her something different for her footwear than the boots she’s been wearing all winter. As she’s usually very quick to tell me if there’s a problem, I really wasn’t expecting to be told that her feet had grown a [...]
Today was my deadline before my second extension for my TMA, so obviously I was frantically writing it up and trying to finish it off yesterday. :/ Wonder if I’ll ever get to a point where I don’t run my head into deadlines before I start doing something about whatever it is I’m doing? Anyway, [...]
Tim decided against sleeping on the floor at old house and came back in the middle of the night, meaning that I didn’t need to roust the children out and catch a bus to the hospital, but could instead drive, on my own. I was very grateful for both these points And then [...]
Another day of removing things – Tim is now in Suffolk with a van load of our furniture and boxes and bedding (kids and I have camping mats tonight, I miss our memory foam mattress already ) Big has had major wobbles with me this evening, sparked off by my asking if she [...]
Over the last day or two, the children have started to get bored of the television and computer. This shows quite simply – they fight, which is not so good, and then they start to do other things, which is better. Big has played recorder and piano two days running, and they are both still [...]
