I’ve said time and time again that I don’t particularly like reading aloud. I do it because I feel it ought to be done, but it doesn’t light my fire iykwim.
This weekend, I’ve begun to see how it could work. I picked up some books at the library a visit or so back, from their new fiction for children section. I scanned them while I was there, and wondered whether they might be read aloudable 😉 and yesterday, I just picked one up and started on it.
Turns out it’s pretty near perfect. In understandable language, not too difficult concept wise, but still raising lots of questions. We’re 12 chapters through Vicious circle now, and going strong. We’ve had several conversations about topics in it – who could know that Big didn’t know hospitals are for ppl that are poorly? (They are for ppl who are broken apparently.) And I’d never thought about the fact that she wouldn’t remember her own experience in one. So I guess I’ve probably read for a couple of hours this weekend, and I’m full of plans for what else we might try next. One thing we have no shortage of in this house is books! 😀
We’ve also done a tiny bit of work on timestables – started working through 2x. I didn’t think it had stuck, but today she came up and started telling me facts out of it, so maybe it did. And I found some Schofield and Sims workbooks on timestables, so I think I’ll drag those out tomorrow. She did some workbook stuff of her own accord today, while she was playing at schools.
They’ve played endlessly. One game involved getting all the fake food out and setting up a shop, then buying it all and taking it home. Lots of questions about what categories – where things fruit or vegetables, what kind of thing would be frozen, or needed to be in the fridge, or could live in the cupboard. Gotta love this autonomous ed thing. Much den building as well – why does this always involve so many of my pegs being left all over the floor?
And I’ve spent much of the time in bed, or sitting in a corner, with headaches and general malaise. Somehow, I’m struggling to find the energy for day to day life at the moment. Hohum.
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16 responses to “Reading aloud.”
All sounded great until the last paragraph, which sounds particularly sad 🙁 (((Jax)))
Somehow? Jax, you work every hour the world sends, travel for hours every day, look after two kids, balance books (lol, in more ways than one), shop, care, love, worry, help, code, write….
Somehow you’re struggling to find energy. Gawd sakes woman… i find life tough enough here; i’d be a puddle of putrid jelly if you added 3 hours commuting to it as well.
(((((Jax))))
Tim, for goodness sake man, book her 2 nights away in a pretty village pub, wrestle her laptop and mobile from her, buy her 3 good novels and send her away for a weekend. :)That way not even i can harrass her. 😉
“send” should be “take” 🙂
Oooh, do you think? I ummed and aahed over it, but decided when my brain is ready to break, what i really need is just total peace and quiet and no thinking.
But you know, obviously either will be fine 🙂
Take.
I need it also as my energy has gone, my migraines are getting more frequent. I love the summer and I’m hating feeling so bad through it.
I hate reading aloud, the girls love me doing it, Buzz hates it.
Sorry to hear you’re wrung out. Are you subjecting Big to Venn diagrams and classification trees yet? 🙂 (Only if you’re feeling _really_ tired and crabby, *evil heh heh type noise* .)
I have tried the send – doesn’t work.
Take seems the best bet, but I am definitely not buying her any more bloody books. 🙂
Giggle… take it is then.
Okay, no books…… um… shall i send a really complicated mini bead kit? 😉
On Big’s thinking re hospitals, ikwym about the sudden realisation that there has been what was a completely hidden misapprehension. This dawned on me when Ds was about 4 and hadn’t realised that milk in bottles wasn’t human milk. I did panic at that point, thinking that this was likely to be an HE prob, but I’ve actually caught several of Ds’s school pals doing similar recently, (one of them thought that pleasure meant thank you, for example) so now suspect that this stuff happens everywhere.
Do hope
meant to add…feel better v.soon
Grin… i only realised when i was about 25 that the distinct memoory i had of flying down my grandparents garden was probably in fact a dream 😉
Merry: you mean it wasn’t a hostess trolley experiment gone horribly wrong then? Maybe you should work as a script-writer for soap operas.
Hugs, Jax – hope you find some energy from somewhere soon and when you do, let me know where to find it! All mine comes from coffee ATM.
OK, new books from the library 🙂 You need someone else there Merry, it’s really hard to give yourself a good backrub 😉 As long as they shut up when necessary and don’t interrupt your reading ….
right now I’d settle for someone removing this two offspring for a couple of hours so I could do some paperwork!
Tim has been trying to send me on a weekend away since roughly the time Small was born. I just haven’t got around to booking it, partly because it feels like too much effort, partly because I have next to no holiday and don’t want to use it up on that, partly because I just haven’t done it. And it wouldn’t be relaxing if I can’t clear the decks before I go.
Which is partly what I’m trying to do by having these monday afternoons to work – we’ve spent quality time together, I’m going to take them to the library in an hour….but why can’t they let me do paperwork for more than five minutes without interrupting?????
Do feel for you – we had a similar commute when the kids were at a waldorf school and I worked there. It was so exhausting. The heat will be making you more tired too. I also love/hate reading aloud – it does get better as they get older and can take turns and they do get so much real learning from it.