Tag: things that go bang
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…
Knitting and ecotech.
Today was my deadline before my second extension for my TMA, so obviously I was frantically writing it up and trying to finish it off yesterday. :/ Wonder if I’ll ever get to a point where I don’t run my head into deadlines before I start doing something about whatever it is I’m doing? Anyway,…
A good couple of days
Tim decided against sleeping on the floor at old house and came back in the middle of the night, meaning that I didn’t need to roust the children out and catch a bus to the hospital, but could instead drive, on my own. I was very grateful for both these points 🙂 And then when…
Feeling wobbly.
Another day of removing things – Tim is now in Suffolk with a van load of our furniture and boxes and bedding (kids and I have camping mats tonight, I miss our memory foam mattress already 🙁 ) Big has had major wobbles with me this evening, sparked off by my asking if she would…
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…
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…
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…
Big's plan
Sitting down with Big to work out what she thinks she ought to be doing during this home ed lark. This is being typed pretty much as we speak, so will be somewhat disjointed 🙂 We both think that maths should be a regular activity, as maths gets easier if you practise it. She wants…
Defensive orgo planning
For pretty much as long as she has been able to talk, Big’s last question of the day has been “what are we doing tomorrow?” and my standard answer is “I don’t know yet”. I’m not a person who lives by plans, and my children are, so I figure that this time around with home…
The first great lesson.
If you don’t know what a Montessori Great Lesson is, or what it’s about, I recommend you tootle off to see Miss Barbara. If you’re wondering why you would do that with elementary age children (6 – 12), there’s a wiki page (isn’t there always a wiki page somewhere?) that explains it. First of all,…