I’m on a roll!
Decided to not waste another day. Bit of an odd morning – got up before 9 and it was still dark. Huge heavy grey clouds and the foghorns sounding from the coast. Then the rain came – but not for very long. Didn’t even manage to properly wash the bird droppings off the tent.
Dried up very quickly and I got two loads of washing out on the line. Wanted to do another but insufficient pegs!
Baby came and sat outside while I hung out laundry, she seemed to enjoy that.
Big planted the slightly sad sunflowers that we had given to us – all children should have sunflowers. (I agree btw.) Small pootled, and Big completed year 4 on mathletics!
Big whoop to her – she really finds maths very difficult, and we are working hard to overcome that (although I had a very bad mummy moment when I slipped from the cheerleading script and said “OK, do you want me to say you are stupid? Fine, you’re stupid. YOU ARE NOT STUPID and I’m tired of telling you that!” Hm, possibly not *quite* the montessori approach there then.)
As an aside, do other ppl have to cheerlead for their children? Big’s first response to anything mathematical is to say I can’t do it and then I have to persuade her that she can and I get ever so tired of it. Because she can do it. She doesn’t retain mathematical facts (number bonds, multiplication and division facts are a mystery to her) but she’s getting faster at working them out. And when she tries she copes. She is doing well, and has worked so hard at it recently.
Turns out that there is a reason for that. She goes swimming with a group of girls from a local school on Monday evenings and it would appear there has been some discussion of whether home education is a worthwhile way of doing it, and I think she has been comparing herself with them and finding herself wanting. Now that I know that’s part of the motivation we’ll work on what to say to the big girls in the showers as well as the maths.
I am really proud of her for dealing with the girls, the maths and the swimming. She is really growing up atm, and she’s a wonderful person to be around. Except when she’s screaming 😉
Small was in a contrary mood again today – we’ve reached an impasse on his tidying and he refused point blank to get his swimming stuff ready. Think he was hoping I’d call his bluff and leave him at home but living at the coast swimming lessons are non optional as far as I’m concerned. Especially after seeing the drowning doesn’t look like drowning thing that’s going round fb atm. 🙁
So we went to swimming then we came back – we carred it as I couldn’t face the walk in the heat. *need* to sort out back carry with the wrap, the ergo just doesn’t feel quite comfortable yet (don’t think soa big enough) although made it to the coop and back and she must have been comfortable as she fell asleep! Tea was a mishmash of whatever was about – some hard boiled eggs, reduced price pizza and carrots, sliced meats for the meat eaters and warmed up pitta breads. Was surprisingly successfuly and we then went on to look at cube numbers and cube roots with the aid of duplo bricks.
So maths in the living room at ten to 9, with Big enjoying it. Take that, big girls in showers who think going to the beach on a school day is bad for your education.
Harumph.
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