It has taken me a while to get round to blogging this. Last week I took the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday off to avoid the Great Yorkshire Show traffic jams in Harrogate, which would have added several hours to my travelling time to work (which is already too long).
I had planned to take the children [...]
Purpose
We wanted to do an experiment to see how the sun heats different coloured things up differently.
Hyphothesis
We expected the black jar to be the warmest.
Materials.
We had three clear glass jars. A sheet of black card, and a sheet of foil.
Method.
We put 1 pint of water in each jar. We measured the temperature of the [...]
must be careful to keep it education, and not indoctrination! Well, I ask you. Big chose a book from the sale box at the library a little while ago, an ancient tome on Reproduction and Growing Up. Today she wanted to read some of it, so we sat together and I read [...]
I love my daughter
She woke me this morning by asking me where the first man and woman came from, which lead to a good discussion about how various ppl believe different things, skirted quickly over a variety of creation stories, and landed on a discussion of the theory of evolution. Had to [...]
Taking another break as I’m somewhat downhearted. Was searching for resources to back up my (limited) understanding of bit manipulation, and on the site of the author of the book I’m using, javaranch, came across a campfire story purporting to explain it. And directly contradicting the book I’m using. I’ve emailed to [...]
and requests for hothousing.
It was an odd day yesterday.
Um, struggling to remember much of it - the drawback of regular blogging I think, as usually I don’t have to apply my memory, I can just read back. Do know that my parents popped round, seemed to be wanting to discuss the HE thing, but [...]
Better get a cup of tea and a chair, it’s a long one
Been a lovely day today, which is a huge improvement on the rest of the week. Well, it was OK when Mimi was round the other day, the smalls were no trouble, but Big and I are going through one [...]
don’t disturb him! He’s only sitting quietly doing a jigsaw all by himself for the very first time (one of those peg board ones, think I got it for £1 at Hesfes last year!) Of course, the flash of the camera disturbed him, and there seem to be some pieces missing, so I [...]
how did that happen then?
We did all this. in November. Wonder if there’s anything else we’ve covered without knowing it.
Anyway, today.
I’m afraid it hasn’t been the calmest start to the New Year. Shouty mummy made a big come back - something to do with having a madcap little girl, and a very inquisitive little [...]
Well, today I have learnt that the work rate of a four year old is nowhere *near* that of a 34 year old. In the time it took me to make 10 hama stars, Big assembled the rest of one card….mind I have got it down to a star a minute (which I know [...]
Both of them.
Missed Big this morning - had to get Small’s breakfast all by myself! Seriously though, did make me realise that somewhere along the way it changed from being slow waiting for her to do whatever it was she wanted to do to help, to suddenly being really useful having her [...]
that I don’t learn from my mistakes.
Today I have tried really hard. I have wet washing on the line (sigh) and wet washing in the machine (bigger sigh), the kitchen is trashed again, but was clean and clear before I started preparing our home cooked tea, and I shifted another bit of paperwork before [...]
A great day today. I had lots of plans to do arty/ crafty/ sciency things with Big today, and instead, I finally remembered to check the phone for the message I’d noticed last night, and it turned out to be from the mother of her first nursery friend. Apparently he’s been wanting to [...]
after I got another decent night on the pullout bed. Apart from the backache
Mainly today we’ve pottered. Finally got around to doing some more work on Big’s scales - I’m taking piccies as we go along. We played the piano a bit - by a stroke of luck I opened [...]
Big read another book this morning. They are from a beginners reader pack that I picked up for a pound in the Works ages ago. I think “Winnie played catch” yesterday, and it was “one more ball” this morning.
She did some more drawing, as did Small, and she spent a lot of [...]
I’m never going to remember it all!
First of all, the new mattress is lovely. Tim slept a full night on it - and I did alright even if Small did manage to crawl up on to it at one point and crash into me
Pondering this morning on education and the point thereof, [...]
Small and I had a lie-in, much needed after another bad night. I’m sure it’s his teeth, but he will not take anything for it, and indeed acts as if I’m trying to poison him throughout.
Despite this we had a pretty good day all round. Big and Small played together quite well, and [...]
although I did read books to Small when he thumped me with them, Big played some involved game with duplo ppl, and they both watched two hours of programs on Animals (Animals Did it First, and In the wild with - although I couldn’t tell you who it was with. Was about pandas [...]
Sometimes my daughter makes me laugh out loud. The above statement was exclaimed as we came over a hill top on the way home, to be faced with a pretty good sunset, and of course, it was her favourite colour
I had my choice of titles today, could have gone with
Woohoo, he slept [...]