Tag: Big
Twitter is over capacity.
“Too many tweets! We’ll try to lighten the load and have things back to normal soon.” Wonder how many of the tweets are to do with it not working properly? They really don’t seem to be scaling very well – anyone got any other recommendations? Didn’t make it out to the scrapstore – given that…
What a difference a day makes
when you leave your laptop switched off 🙂 It’s still switched off. I’m borrowing Tim’s machine, while he’s out shopping and the grots are bathing. I’ve really enjoyed the freedom, haven’t felt that the day got away from me at all. Well, apart from the first hour or so I spent sleeping after the grots…
is it too soon
to claim the day has improved? Perhaps I’d better stick with it’s improving 😉 After a traumatic half hour on Small’s part, when someone mentioned lunch to him, and he realised he hadn’t had breakfast (it *was* offered, but he was too busy being read to, then drawing, then dancing :roll:) and of course, you…
I do wish I had a camera
handy at least! It’s not quite 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning. The tv is playing to itself (must replace it with music). Big is sitting at the newly cleared art table doing more parchment embossing and decorating. Small is doing a paint by numbers at the dining room table. Apparently all the numbers mean…
finally
we have shoes, well actually boots, for Big. I’ve lost count of how many shoe shops we’ve been in and didn’t even try to count how many pairs of shoes we’ve tried on – it’s taken 3 weekends to sort this out! And then, icing on the cake, machine refused my credit card! The cheek…
Pythagoras with cuisenaire
courtesy of 1000 Playthinks 🙂 Found this the other night when I was tidying, and decided I’d inflict it on Big. Expected her to wail and moan and wriggle, instead she practically ripped it out of my hand and we started working through the puzzles difficulty level 1. We got to one about pythagoras, and…
I love our library (again)
Tonight Big read Night You Were Born (Orchard Picturebooks) to me. We got it at the library earlier this week, when they were selling off lots of books, 6 for £1. And as you know, we’ve a shortage of books here 😉 Anyway, tonight we talked about punctuation marks, I said things like ‘that’s a…
And the rest of the day
Apart from dictating her experiment today, Big has done lots of work on maths. Completely unprompted and with only a little guidance at that – she found a box of post office toys (tried to find a link, but elc appear to have discontinued it so as to be able to fit in more boxes…
the experiment – the results
Purpose We wanted to do an experiment to see how the sun heats different coloured things up differently. Hyphothesis We expected the black jar to be the warmest. Materials. We had three clear glass jars. A sheet of black card, and a sheet of foil. Method. We put 1 pint of water in each jar.…
Listening
to Big reading her own bedtime story (Kitty Helps Out (Kitty & Cat Lift the Flap S.)) out loud to Tim 🙂 The hands off approach is finally paying dividends. I know she’s cracked it by herself, she knows she’s cracked it by herself, and she is getting more and more adventurous on what she…