Tag: Small steps
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…
Pester power
The other day we bought BRIO 32807 Bob the Builder Builder System: Scoop for Small. It arrived very quickly, and is sitting in its nice anonymous Amazon box waiting for wrapping. However this morning, watching Milkshake, Small has seen Kid K’nex – Bucket of Buddies – 70pc on an advert. Very politely he said “I…
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…
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 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…
Been and gone again.
This morning Sarah-the-speech-therapist came around to assess Small’s progress. We know he is making astounding progress – this is a child who was to all intents and purposes non verbal at the start of this year, who now has a vocabulary I wouldn’t dream of trying to count, and who structures long sentences (I counted…
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…
If I were an insurance renewal paper
where would I be? ‘cos I can’t find it. I don’t need it to renew my insurance, regular readers will know that I did that three weeks ago. But I need the renewal sheet as it has evidence of my no claims bonus on it, and my new company needs that evidence. And can I…
Lovely afternoon.
This afternoon I got the afternoon I’d been looking forward to having yesterday, iyswim 😉 I dragged myself out of bed and mediated between screaming children (Big had decided to get dressed, which meant Small wanted to get dressed, but Big wasn’t doing it right (he doesn’t like having his ears touched much)) then breakfasted…