has been rather better though.
I crawled out of my pit and launched straight into montesori lessons on letters a and b. That’s probably not how you’re supposed to do it, but the important thing as far as I was concerned was to be doing an activity. And dd was thrilled with her bright pink letters – gotta do some more tonight.
We then had a bit of a prob with a postcard she wanted to write. She dictated what she wanted to put and started copying it, then got herself incredibly stressed when she somehow skipped a line mid word and it all went horribly wrong. Took about an hour for us to get just her name on the card (she didn’t want to throw it away, she’d used pen so it wouldn’t rub out, and I, most unreasonably, refused to go back to Scotland to get another one lol), then we walked round to the post office to post it. On the way back we looked for numbers – mainly on houses – dd knows her numerals, and her numbers up to about 80, but doesn’t recognise them past 10 – guess I need to look at the best ways to work with numbers. (Do I need to do anything specific, or will games like todays be enough? I’m not sure I’ve got the courage to be a complete unschooler!)
When we got back it was lunch time – dd made her own jam sandwich. After lunch we did a light experiment (that’s an experiment about light, not one that isn’t heavy!). We drew a circle, divided it into 7 segments, coloured it the colours of the rainbow (which was fun, I mean, who has indigo crayons?), inserted a short sharp pencil and hey presto, the rainbow merges back into white. Well, we liked it anyway.
Then there was the washing to sort out, then we baked. Ok, so it was packet cookies, but dd loved it anyway. Beginning to get a bit hyper by the evening – really need to sort out some physical activities, oh that’s right I’ve booked a dance class starting on Thurs. maybe I can pull this thing together after all.
Funny thing is, asked dd tonight before she went to bed what were her favourite bits of the day and she said the washing and the baking. So all the amazing stuff that I rigged and maybe all I need to do is have her do the housework for me. With me, I mean with me. Honest. 😉
Time to go get some food. And investigate web rings.
