Jax Blunt

Although dd hasn’t managed another reading lesson yet she is suddenly fascinated by letters. She’s written her name several times, and has picked out letters in all sorts of places – although she didn’t choose the best time to notice the letters on my T shirt – ds was having a feed at the time!

Her writing is really improving, and so is her letter recognition – if only my patience could improve as fast we’d be getting on leaps and bounds. I keep telling myself that it’s the heat and the lack of sleep – I feel really out of it just now, but I’ve had a friend around all day which has really helped.

Wonder if dd would like a reading lesson tonight? Not sure as she looks really tired too….

Been ever such a long time since I posted here. Somehow having the new baby seems to be evaporating my time – dunno how that works.

Anyway, thought I’d mention that dd has decided to learn to read. She’s only had one lesson so far – but that has been due to the fact that we’ve been doing other stuff – but it went really well. We’re using 100 easy lessons, and we did try it six months or so back, but didn’t get anywhere with it. Hopefully we’ll try tomorrow, but she’ll only have her lessons off daddy, so it can be quite difficult to arrange.

There have been other activities mind, there was the home educators camp, she’s been to see her grandfather who is very educational on the whole plant thing, she learnt to muck out a horse – nothing if not a well rounded education.

Hopefully I’ll be putting entries in here a little more often from now on – I’m sure we’ve done loads recently, but that’s all I can think of right now.

Oops forgot to mention the school game!

Dd goes to nursery at the moment – it’s a childcare centre rather than a school attached nursery, but recently she’s started referring to the staff as teachers, and talks about taking the register and so on. Dp and I are discussing ways to rearrange our working to drop her hours there, but that is by the by.

Yesterday she decided to play schools with her three adult companions – we had to draw on command, and then there was the register – I was intrigued to see that she was making tally marks on her paper and then counting them up.

Well, I thought it was interesting 🙂

How did it get to be Monday? Where does the time go??

Saturday we shopped, yesterday my friend gug (renamed from her original name by my dd) arrived, and she and I went shopping, while dd and dp gardened. They reorganised flower beds and planted flowers, and saved up criticism for me on my return that I had killed my rose pot plant!

This morning dd started the day with a game of chess (rooks with king v king) with gug, although had the same problem of not liking having her rook taken. Not quite sure what we can do about that. Other than that it’s been a very quiet day – I’m less than a week from my due date for babe number 2, and I really don’t feel up to much.

Sure that the homebirth will be an educational experience all round though….

Day two.

We haven’t done anything yet today, but I wanted to put an entry in to cover what sort of things we have been doing recently.

Dd decided last night that she can read to me and the baby (currently a 39 week bump) and paraphrased the book that I’d just read to her really well. I was very impressed as previously she has refused to read, saying that she doesn’t know how to. Not that I’ve been pressuring her – quite the opposite, she keeps telling me that she wants to read, but then won’t let me do anything to help her.

Our other activity of the week has been chess – again her idea. We’ve got the chess board out a number of times, discussed all the names of the pieces, and then set up the board. To play a game we’ve dropped it down so that she has her rooks and a king and I just have a king. That seems to work pretty well – she gets to concentrate on the real aim of the game, and she can learn the moves to those specific pieces. We did have tears when I managed to take one of her rooks though – not quite sure how to deal with that!

Anything else? Oh yes, she has just started to feed her doll in a natural manner – love to have been a fly on the wall if she did that at nursery yesterday!