Tag: Big
Defensive orgo planning
For pretty much as long as she has been able to talk, Big’s last question of the day has been “what are we doing tomorrow?” and my standard answer is “I don’t know yet”. I’m not a person who lives by plans, and my children are, so I figure that this time around with home…
Reading is all I'm up to
Feels like someone has pulled my brain out of my ears and replaced it by slightly too much cotton wool, which is pressing uncomfortably on my ear drums and making thinking far too difficult. So I have done next to nothing yesterday and today, except a little light reading. I’m on a quest to find…
Endings and beginnings.
Small has finished school now. He’s very happy. I said goodbye to a batch of children today, and mainly managed not to cry, although a couple of them got to me. Big and I have our last day tomorrow, last day of term. It should be fun, although once again bittersweet. And then it’s full…
Fun ways to learn about parallel lines
This was our maths lesson for the day today 🙂 I’ve had to remove the embedded instructable movie as it was causing problems for IE users, but the project is the Super-cool easy 6 pointed snowflake – More DIY How To Projects It seemed to go down rather well, or at least it did after…
Buy Nothing Day | Saturday November 29th 2008
Buy Nothing Day | Saturday November 29th 2008 Saturday November 29h 2008 is Buy Nothing Day, It’s a day where you challenge yourself to switch off from shopping and tune into life. The rules are simple, for 24 hours you will detox from consumerism and live without shopping. Anyone can take part provided they spend…
A trip towards literacy
From Bob Bug and friends to The Caper of the Crown Jewels: England (Secret Agent Jack Stalwart) in two and a half months. Small started his first chapter book, The Finger-Eater (Sprinters), on Thursday. He read a chapter then, and a chapter today. Then the book ppl order arrived, including a gift bag set of…
Trip on a train.
It was an Open University Open Event in Leeds today. I don’t like driving into Leeds. I really didn’t like the idea of driving into Leeds with two children in the car shouting helpful comments like “you’ve gone the wrong way” and “You’re lost aren’t you?” so by the time Tim left around lunchtime I’d…
Missing a month
only photographically – took the kids to a party this afternoon and discovered when I got back that I had pictures from the last party they attended at the end of September, then nothing from October, and then pictures again today. Hm. Must do better – they are growing and changing so fast, I really…
Today's library haul
Crafting creativity: 52 brilliant ideas for awakening the artistic genius within (52 brilliant ideas series) – saw this one on a teaser display of the non fiction books they have upstairs. As we didn’t have time to go upstairs thought I’d grab it and have a look. Have peeked at the first chapter/ brilliant idea…
What we're reading now
Tim popped up to the not quite local branch library and picked up The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The Classic Guide for Realists and Dreamers. I’m fairly sure that under these descriptions I’d be the dreamer, and he’s the realist, it’s how we marry up those differing realities that count. I have so many…