Category: Home Ed Life
A, B, C, D, E, F….
G! Thanks to Dora, Big spent yesterday memorising her alphabet. Or at least attempting to ;). I didn’t realise Dora was the inspiration to begin with – didn’t recognise the song, I’m afraid. And I don’t know it, so my help was limited to writing out the alphabet, lower and upper case, for her to…
Synchronicity
I’ve been toying with the idea of building a geodesic dome since someone posted instructions to a list (mp?) a while back. Felt like an outdoor activity though, but I was wondering about doing it at our puddlers group sometime, where at least we’ve got a big hall. Big is sitting watching Extreme Archaeology, and…
A baby step to autonomy?
“What can I do? give me something to do…” “Well, OK, we can do some reading, or some maths” “I don’t want to do that” pause “I’ll go and find myself something to do. I’ll do some drawing.” And she went and got paper (for both of them), crayons (for both of them) and some…
It's Dora day
And boy don’t I know it! very jangly stuff, isn’t it? So Big is concentrating on her language studies today, although we did read another couple of stories in the red nose reader when we turned Dora off for lunch. Small found his pack of pants, and was determined to wear them, over his nappy…
Been a long day
Sounds like it ought to be a song. Anyway. Hauled myself out of bed before nine this morning, with some determination that I would spend quality time with the children. And I did – it was variable, but there were some good patches. Big read a red nose reader story this morning – they seem…
Shoe-string Publishing
Shoe-string Publishing I’m gonna try some of this stuff with Big. I specially like the Feeling poems. Wishing I hadn’t chucked out that ancient desk diary now…but I’ve a feeling last years is still about somewhere 😉
Kath's pizza recipe
Putting it here so I can find it again 😉 300g strong white flour (bread flour) 1 sachet of dried yeast Dessertspoonish of sugar Dessertspoonish of salt Mix into a dough with warm water, about half a pint possibly. I do it by eye. So put a little warm water in, mix it round, keep…
The good, the bad and the downright ugly.
Good: Primary geography sparking off map activity this morning, lots of jigsaw activity for both of them, including the 20 Word Puzzles that we’ve had for ages (that’ll be a reading activity then), cooking tea together. Getting an hour on my own with Small in the library (aw, he took his book to the counter…
Sigh
Big has just stropped off to her room, slamming all possible doors, screaming “but I want to read!” This would be because I attempted a new strategy with the reading lesson, called quit while you are ahead, in which as soon as she started messing about and not trying, I said “well done, lovely, we’ll…
A small camel kind of day.
With thanks to Jan 😉 But Small has got a new phrase. He said it quite a few times before it clicked what he was saying… “My turn!” Still quite bemused that he is learning phrases rather than individual words 😉