Tag: Small steps
Small wants to learn
How lite is fire How hot is fire How cold is ice How fast is the sun How slow is the earth How good is Federer Yes, the last one made me laugh too. I should point out that although I asked him to find pen and paper to write these down, he told me…
Because we should blog the bad with the good…
The day started with us overhearing a very convoluted game the children were playing downstairs (sleeping in the loft room means all noise comes up through the open hatch and as the children are not really capable of quiet, we get to hear everything they are up to). Anyway, as it became apparent that Small…
Looking at bikes.
Can’t actually remember what went on this morning (maybe there’s a drawback to not brightkiting after all 😉 ) although I’m sure there was something that I was planning on blogging. Then just before lunchtime we decided we’d walk out with Tim to look at bikes at the other independent bikeshop in town. Tim wanted…
Mixed weather, mixed day.
I hadn’t realised how weather reliant my children’s moods are – I know the sunshine affects me, but really hadn’t clicked on how much it changes them. So this morning, while it bucketed down, they watched mindless tv mainly, although there was yet another viewing of Horrible History (have realised that they have recorded one…
Back to swimming lessons and first Beavers.
For unknown reasons I woke up at 5.30 in the morning and then couldn’t get properly back to sleep, so I was never going to be all sweetness and light for the day. Nevertheless I managed to persevere with calling the leisure centre until I finally managed to get the swimming teacher on the phone…
Incidental education
During the day, Small in particular often asks peculiar questions or indulges in brief conversations that seem like they’ve gone nowhere, but then days or weeks later crop up again in his thinking. There is no way that I can track all of these, but a couple have stood out over the last two days,…
What the children did
Outsourcing the children for the morning was an excellent thing for them – while I’m sure they’d have enjoyed the scan bit of my morning, I’m just as sure they would not have enjoyed the well over an hour of waiting around that happened alongside it all. Instead they used S’s copy of The Children’s…
edited highlights
mainly because blow by blow of how dreadful I feel isn’t interesting to me, and I’m sure it isn’t interesting to you either! Small wrote a story entitled “The story of Pregnancy” – it’s only a page long, but I loved the end “the baby cryed in his mind.” It was completely unprompted, and I…
Boredom, maths, hats and old buildings.
Most of the time the kids amuse themselves – I keep an eye on what they are up to and offer suggestions, facilitate interests, drag them out on outings and set up groups and visits. So far it seems to be working quite well 🙂 Yesterday morning, Small complained he was bored. He didn’t want…
Expensive day
With Big due to go to Brownies tonight, thought I ought to go out and get her something different for her footwear than the boots she’s been wearing all winter. As she’s usually very quick to tell me if there’s a problem, I really wasn’t expecting to be told that her feet had grown a…