and it completely derailled my day!
It was from one of the local home ed group organisers – the person providing tomorrow’s activity can’t make it – could I bring forward my activity? Of course I could, I said, without really thinking about it, and I’ve spent the rest of the day panicking! I said I would do artists trading cards – so I’ve been out and bought some extra card, and I really ought to be chopping it up right now…
On the plus side, I finished washing the tent and got it put away again, before it started raining. And a first for dd – a child led autonomous home ed activity – and it was all your fault Jan! Dd won pass the parcel at C’s birthday party, way back when, and the prize is a twisty puzzle. One of the pictures on it is a caveman. “What’s a caveman?” she asked…cue quick dragging out of pictorial history book, complete with pictures of cavemen, and timelines, and we must have spent half an hour discussing it. Doesn’t sound like much, I know, but it’s only in the last couple of days that dd has started to ask questions again. I vaguely remember that she used to ask really deep questions shortly after she started talking, but she’s not done anything like that for a year or more. Nursery, or Small’s arrival interrupted it.
Yesterday she was asking about ants, watching them on the step outside the back door, but I didn’t get to follow that up before she disappeared onto the climbing frame.
On our trip to buy supplies for tomorrows activity, we also picked up these They were in the Works for £1 (there are four books in the pack), so I thought they were worth a try, we got another one as well, but I can’t remember the title, and can’t be bothered to go find it. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Right, better go cut up some card. Wish me luck – I’ve never led an activity before!
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Leading an activity? You’d get thrown out of our local group for that. LOL. Good luck with it. Can you post the link for these cards again. We started some, and never finished them, and now I can’t find the link.
Hope it goes well, Jax!
Good luck for today – I’m sure it will be fine 🙂
One of the links is in my spiel above – need to change my link colour as well don’t I? Just mouse over artists trading cards and you should get there.
oooh good luck – you’re braver than me!!
Had another look at the link – I still think it would be really nice to have an ATC swap – maybe at muddlepuddle camp? What do you think, Jax? I wonder how many children/families are going, so how many cards one would need in order to be able to swap with everyone …? (that ‘I wonder’ was neutral, btw!)
I think an ATC trading session at camp would be great – and I now have loads of unused stuff that I’ve got for it so we could have a making session as well if we wanted.
That’s a nice idea. I mean it IS a nice idea. As in pleasant/I agree/excellent.
rofl Joyce 😉
Glad to be of service re the caveman thing. 😉
Good idea about a making / swapping session at camp. YOu’ll be an expert at it by then Jax!