Tag: reeling, writhing
I think I know
why Big doesn’t get to do anything much else once she starts on writing. 15 minutes in, and we’ve got once sentence written out. 30 minutes reading took 45 today by the time she’d fallen off the sofa, crawled around the room and so on. :wall:
watching Mary Poppins
Yesterday I worked from home. The break from driving was much appreciated! Kirsty came by and dropped A off while she took M to the dentist, and despite the fact it was ages since my two had seen A they all disappeared off upstairs, and were neither seen nor heard until about 5.45, when they…
getting out of bed the other side
Our children are morning ppl. Tim and I are night owls. This has often resulted in the children getting up and breakfasting and watching tv on their own and us staggering down an hour or two later, which then sets the pattern for a bad day. Wanting to break the pattern, we’ve decided that reading…
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…
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…
The day continued frighteningly well
Big worked her way through huge amounts of my scrap fabric – they work it as capes, used it as blankets, she cut and sewed, it was great. Forgot to mention that she drew a card for Small yesterday, wrote in it and everything. Bizarrely she is now doing his initial backwards, but most other…
OK, now I'm scared.
It’s been a busy morning, with Small playing happily on cbeebies with Mr Tumble, having previously done some fabric land game he found. He came charging in with instructions that he’d printed out about paper weaving, so I got him the bits he needed and he did a tiny bit of that, before declaring he…
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.…
He does do cute
my little boy. New word of the day is “Daddy”. Big went to bed with a maths workbook. Sometimes I worry about that child 😉 And that was after yet another chapter of Ballet Shoes. I’m really enjoying reading that to her, it was one of my favourite books as a child, and I’ve read…