still some education going on.
As well as Beavers, Brownies, swimming, shopping, cooking and living.
It’s busy here 🙂
Yesterday’s educational outing was in the form of a trip to the hospital for a presentation scan. The very nice sonographer lady greeted the children with a standard “not in school today, or did you finish early?” and was only a tiny bit surprised when I responded “no, they’re home educated, and you’re part of their education for today.” 😀
She was a little flustered, but rose to the challenge, and spoke more to the children than she did to me, explaining what she was doing, how the pictures were built up, what they were looking at, and so on. It was great, and the kids loved it. Suspect the scan took at least twice as long as it needed to as she fielded questions and managed to show them baby’s face, but I didn’t care, especially as we were in on time for once.
Then I was shunted off to see the consultant, or more accurately the registrar. Although she went to see the consultant when I said I wanted a home birth. I’m not sure why I’m still listed as under consultant care, there’s absolutely no need for it, and I don’t think it was the consultant’s intention from our conversation way back when, but I don’t think anyone that I’ve seen since has the clout to change what the bits of paper say. Oh well. It says I can have a homebirth on my paperwork and that was what I wanted it to say.
Tim brought a huge stack of boxes out of the garage to go up into the loft, as he’s gone up to old house to clear the loft there today. This means we recovered a few fun things, including the Game Boy Advance SP
(though not its charger, goodness only knows which box *that* is in) and a book which Small then used to do biology for his third work, Uncover a Crocodile
. Love it when he just gets stuck into something, he probably would educate himself autonomously if he was left to it, though he doesn’t object to regular maths in his day anyway. He likes maths 🙂
Big is doing well with her swimming – at the end of her lesson on Tues the instructor said that he’s going to arrange for her to have a test with the next group up next week, as the only problem she had with breast stroke this week was a flicking out left foot. Hoping to fit in a swim over the weekend, possibly with uncle D to demonstrate the stroke, as it’s not one I dare risk atm, and it’s not one that Tim can do. Small is talking optimistically of moving up soon too, but I can’t see it. He doesn’t appear to swim at all in his lesson, although water confidence has increased greatly, and he won’t do anything outside his lesson without a float or a ring. Ah well, he’ll figure it out when he’s ready to, like everything else he’s done.
Also swimming related, got into a chat with the parent of a friend of Big’s friend C, and naturally that strayed on to home education too. It kind of has to, when the obvious first question about a child these days is what school do they go to. She (the mother) was fascinated, and even wrote down the url of the site I’ve bought our maths books from. Wonder if she’s a possible home ed recruit 😉 The daughter is only 2 weeks younger than Big so would certainly fit the bill for a handy same age playmate 🙂
And that will have to do for a bit of a round up, not much in the way of detail this week I’m afraid, but it’s about all I’ve got in me. I’m finding all the political stuff very draining.
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