Category: Home Ed Life
Ropey start, but we recovered well.
Small is just full of cold – I hauled myself upstairs and steamed myself gently in the shower for a bit and that seemed to help. Once done with that, rolled up my sleeves, metaphorically speaking, and cracked on. Big did lunch again, while I was showering, and after it we successfully made cinnamon scented…
Aargh….
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 is…
Good weekend.
Big was out for the night Friday night, then I picked her up for swimming Saturday morning. Slight glitch was that it was her teacher’s birthday so she’d taken a day off, and there was a standin. The good news is that this was the chap who taught Big in the summer, lovely man, and…
just in case
anyone wasn’t sure of the educational worth of hama – “how many beads do I need….1, 2, 3, 4….. I’ve done one bit, it’s a great triangle, and that’s just half of a square!” rofl…
We had our quiet day
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 the children’s song…
Look what we found!
Not done much with the children today – instead with the help of Claire we’ve excavated the dining room! We even found a piano in there…. There’s an awful lot of books too, but you knew that already. Small is very quiet and sorry for himself – full of cold and possibly teething as well.…
I think we're on a roll
And this is the post I was trying to write last night to prove it. Hope I can remember everything that we did yesterday! I know that Big did this: really impressed at how well she concentrated on it – especially as she didn’t start it til bath time! She thought hard about the colours…
Beginning to wonder
if we might have cracked it. There appears to be child led learning going on all over the place. It’s a bit more contrived than I expected, but I think that could just be me getting into the swing of it. Today we have done more MMM stuff, including planting (do you call it planting…
From the sublime to the ridiculous
Well, we’ve done more Milly Molly Mandy school today, covering a bit of history although I’m not sure what else you’d say it covered. Some of that entrepeneurial stuff Joyce was talking about I think (it’s the chapter where MMM finds a penny for those in the know). Big is desperate to learn to knit…