Tag: Jonny had two apples
Decisions, decisions.
I went down to old house yesterday and did some more clearing – brought back yet more stuff to litter this house with 🙁 Actually, I am hoping to be offloading some stuff that we don’t want any more, but I’ll put that in another post. After I’d cleared our bedroom pretty much, and stacked…
A day of packages
I had so many good intentions today. Well, at least I got the car serviced 🙂 Let’s see. I wanted to clear out bits of the dining room – Tim managed to hoover in there at least. I pulled a couple of bits out and I have a big pile of stuff to drop off…
the eighth result
Now, how long is it going to be before I join the select crew of Wizard Whimstaff results in google? 😀 Tim took Big out today, and they went to wilkos and bought Wizard Whimstaff’s Hilarious Handwriting (aka Basic Skills: Handwriting: Ages 6-7 (Basic Skills)) and his Toady Times Tables: Magical Skills Level 1 (Magical…
teaching themselves
this morning, Small has learnt from numberjacks that 6 can be split into two 3s. (I’m not going to promise that he knows he can do that with six things mind 😉 ) Big is sitting on the floor counting her money and exchanging pounds in change for pound coins. Her arithmetic is improving rapidly…
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…
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…
and the home ed part of it all
Now, I know it’s Sunday. I know it’s a day of rest for many. I know that my children don’t know that, and one of the things they’ve never got around to learning is that education is supposed to happen 9 -3.30, Mon-Fri, within the walls of a school. I’m quite pleased about that actually.…
Birthday outing
Celebration part the third! This is getting to be one long celebration, and Big is loving every little bit of it. Having her oldest friend stay overnight, as he has done rather a lot of times in the past, ought to be straightforward and it did used to be. However, we didn’t used to have…
Birthday part the second
given that presents on Thursday night count as part one 😉 Long day though first, as there was lots to be done. Small had a hearing appt first thing this morning, so he and I were out bright and early (well, 9.30, which is bright and early for a Saturday I think 😉 ) and…
How much more education can we fit in one day????
It occurred to me that this blog has been somewhat devoid of home educational reporting recently. That’s because we’ve come out of the sit-down-and-do-work stage that we went into a little while ago, it appeared to serve its purpose and kickstarted the learning process again. We now have voluntary turning off of the television (ah…