Category: Home Ed Life
the day didn't really improve
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 anyway). I’ve…
so am I saving the planet or not?
Today I have made gloop which is supposedly an improvement on washing powder, but apparently I might be destroying the rainforest instead. Sigh. Sometimes I think that it would all be much easier to just jack it in and stop thinking about the environment at all. 🙁 Anyway, sound of the day is p, not…
not a good day
so not going to blog particularly, except to say that I ought to know better. My little girl doesn’t manage quiet unplanned days at home very well – she starts the day with “Where are we going, who are we seeing?” and if the answer is no one, it goes downhill from there. The problem…
Sound of the day: t
Well, we didn’t make it to home ed group. For whatever reason, Big is wound up like a tight spring this morning, and although I am aware that it is my own behaviour that requires modifying in order to improve hers, I was struggling to find anything good to praise her for, in between the…
"the pink is just glorious"
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…
Seriously sticky scrapping
Yes, we did follow Joyce’s suggestion to make a Jolly phonics sound scrapbook. Big was thrilled with it all, and from being nowhere with indentifying sounds in words found several for herself. The fact that she got to shred lots of our recycling bag improved the situation no end, and Small enjoyed contributing to the…
Planning some stuff
Right, I’ve just been through and made a whole bunch of categories – now when I blog I can store posts against one or more categories, and it should make pulling out the info of what we’ve done a bit easier. Also means that I might remember to broaden what we are doing a bit…
This reading thing
I’m beginning to suspect that Big just isn’t ready for this. Seems so odd – she is a bright child in a lot of ways, although immature at times. (Lots of times, lol.) She says that she wants to read, but today we had a performance on the grand scale, a repetition of last nights.…
Curriculum discussion
If we break this down into areas it works quite well at the moment as dd needs basic skills that can be described quite clearly. Reading: letters, sounds, words, lots of reading practise and listening to stories. Maths: numbers, adding, dividing, subtracting in real life situations. Using manipulatives (cuisenaire rods, soon to be pattern blocks,…