Tag: reeling, writhing
Reading levels again.
Out of interest, following the Harry Potter fest, I revisited the reading tests that I did in December with the offspring. Small now gets about half the words in each box up to 88, never missing more than a couple in a row, although he declined to go any further (grade 8 month 8 –…
Boredom is good for them.
Over the last day or two, the children have started to get bored of the television and computer. This shows quite simply – they fight, which is not so good, and then they start to do other things, which is better. Big has played recorder and piano two days running, and they are both still…
Unsuccessful charity shop scouring
Given the number of Harry Potters in print, I find it slightly amazing how few there are in the charity shops in this town – our only find today was Azkaban, and we already have two copies of that. Oh well, we are sorted from the library right atm, I just wanted to be sure…
Politicising the offspring.
This afternoon Big and I have wrapped IT and civics together by sitting down to talk through and complete her response to the current review on home education. Her identifier was 1103, so the numbers are climbing steadily this week, good. Tim and I have had several conversations about it all, and it’s pretty much…
Fitting more in
The children seem to have reached a stage where aimless wandering through the day is insufficient and they are both looking for something more structured to do. So I came down (late again, have stopped taking the diclofenax, would rather have the pain than the way I felt last night thank you very much) to…
Go to your room!
Whenever I send a child to their room atm (happens a couple of times a day for Big, couple of times a week for Small) they snatch up a book/ workbook whatever, and stamp off in a huff, and forget to come back down when the five minutes is up 🙂 So tonight they were…
Losing track of the days
The children are doing a lot of reading atm, both working on their HP books. Small is about halfway through book 1 now, and Big is racing through book 4. They’ve watched some tv, though I have noticed that the frequency and amount of TV watching has dropped off steadily, from being pretty much constant…
Weekends and weekdays, all flowing together.
Given that neither Tim or I are working outside the home atm, the pattern to life here is somewhat fluid. Weekends are slightly more marked in that they are our chances to see the ppl who do work, relatives and friends both, and we made our most of our chances with a ppl filled time…
Family film evening
A little package arrived this morning, containing Harry Potter Years 1-5 Box Set. The children were very excited. We had a look at the first film, hoping to plan a film evening, and discovered it’s 147 minutes long, so the evening has had to start earlier than I’d hoped really! Earlier in the day we…
Geology, black bags and backward names.
We went off to school to pick up the car and timed it so that the kids at school were just finished lunch so that Big and Small could have running around time. It went well – I kept a close eye on Small who can very easily get carried away but he was headed…