And after you've done one thing

do another.

It’s still working. Today I’ve quietly managed lots of fiddly little bits that have been hanging over me for ages, including a trip to the post office and two things in the post, more blogring type stuff, bits of emails. And I haven’t fallen any further behind on anything, mainly because of a sudden burst of willpower and I’ve started not saying yes to everything!

So incredibly hard though when ppl keep sending offers through of fantastic stuff that I know the kids would love. We don’t have the cash atm (and I’m stingy) so I don’t want to buy things, so when things are offered I just want to say yes to it all. But then I’ve got a backlog of reviews to write, and stuff that I thought we’d love we don’t and I hate working out how to write that up, so I get myself all tangled and nothing happens.

Ahem. That isn’t what this post was going to be about at all. But there you go.

I was going to write about home education. You know, that thing what I talk about a lot on twitter, but barely ever mention on here. Given that I’m now flying the flag for the blogring, I feel that I should be mentioning the education aspect of our lives a little more regularly really!

So how do we go about it?

Well, it varies. From day to day, and from child to child. Small, oddly is the easiest atm. We’re into a nice routine where he sorts himself out on a morning, then does maths (he uses mathletics, and currently has a goal of a new gold bar every day, as he’s trying to finish year 6, even though he’d only be in year 5 at school), science (using Science Made Easy Life Processes & Living Things Ages 7-9 Key Stage 2 Book 1 (Carol Vorderman’s Science Made Easy) which quite frankly I think is awful, far too dumbed down for words, but is at least giving rise to some interesting discussions when I try to explain that!) and then he reads a chapter of whatever book he’s got on the go – today it was Queste: Septimus Heap Book 4 which I think he finished. When he finishes a book, he then reviews it on his blog if I can persuade him to do so. After all that he’s pretty much free to amuse himself – the current obsession is Animal Crossing on the Wii, which I find irritating, but know from experience eventually he’ll work out of his system and move on. (Please let that be soon.)

Smallest is next easiest. I try to make sure I read with her every day. Today it was floor ed while I was in the middle of cooking pizza 😉 She read to me, then I read That’s Why to her.

As well as that, she spends time on the computer, usually on Magictown, Reading Eggs (full review coming soon) or CBeebies. Or all of them in succession. I’m reasonably hopeful that she’ll just learn to read of her own accord. Yes, I know I’m probably hugely over optimistic there, but hey, you never know.

And that’ll have to do you for tonight, as Tigerboy thinks it’s snack time. Updates on the other children very soon.