Nursery day today, so kids have been there moslty. Last day tomorrow.
It was Stringbean’s last Ballet clss of the term, turned up there a found that it was a session for parents to sit in on while they should us the sort of things they ahd been doing, so much dancing and skipping around by cute little girls in ballet outfits 
Also cute was Butterbean who did her ‘wobbly dance’ to the piano. I relaised afterwards that we had missed the last lesson last term – so it probably is a regular end of term thing. Helen will be disappointed to have missed it. And of course no piccies as I didn’t realise it was happening 
That’s it really, SB made a goodbye/thankyou card for the staff in her room at nursery – She did some good conifer treees on it – apprently it was a christmas tree shop.? The sun was also setting she informed me so there wasn’t much sky below it.
On the topic of sky, yesterday I think it was she started talking about the sky and said that ‘we breathe in the sky’ – which I thought was an interesting way to put it. I did introduce the idea of the atmosphere being all around us and mentioned about the sky looking blue. But realised that it’s a rather intangible concept – ‘sky’ as more of a visual effect than a thing.
Had a little chat over dinner about things she might like to learn a bit about now that she will have finished nursery and we will have more time at home. She said that she wants to learn some more about space and said she wants to learn from the ‘picture books about things’ – which I assume meant the Picturepeadia and alll the other nice DK books we have. So we will see where that takes us.
Other than that Helen is away tonight, she has gone up to soem conference or training thing or something – in Leeds as it happens. so won’t be back until tomorrow night. So a bit late getting both kiddies to sleep – but me and SB had nice snuggle and read for her bedtime stories – a rather nicely illustrated book by Nick butterworth/Mick Inkpen as it happens retelling some of the parables Jesus tells in the bible. She did complain a few times, that the story of the Good Samaritan said the chap was bleeding where he got hit, but none of the pictures showed the blood! 
Followed by a lift the flap book of the nativity story (I think it’s the same one) – she’ll be wanting to go to church next
I’ve whiled away much of the rest of the time, fiddling about and wandering around some new blogs starting from the 13th Carnival of Homeschooling over on Why Homeschool
This amused me , among other posts. I liked the album thing here – I liked her time line idea as well. There is a good debunking of anti home education critiscisms over on the Bonny Glen and talk of the idea of tidal homeschooling struck a cord.
One of the above is hosted on Homeschoolblogger and I’m wondering if I should be linking to it or supporting the boycott, but I’m generally dubious about the effectiveness of boycotts. Though it seems here that this is boycott as a form of publicity tool to highlight the issue, rather than to ‘bring down’ HSB
Hmm, wondering what has happned to my hapy smilies. but right now I ashould get some Zzzzzz’s
Hm, not sure what I think about the boycott – but you could be right in that it’s definitely raising the profile of the issue, which I don’t think is a bad thing.
My take on the boycott is this:
1) It is, as Jax has said, raising the profile of the issue – I’ll go further than Jax and say I think this is a good thing
2) I don’t want anyone to click anywhere on my site and be taken to a site that supports the P**rls. Apart from not wanting to be associated with HSB myself, every impression on their site increases their revenue a little.
Whether the boycott is effective or not, it’s just as easy for me not to link to HSB as it is to link to it; it costs me nothing either way, and my preference is not to link to it, so that’s what I’ll do.
I’m not sure that impressions definitely increase revenue – depends on the advertising model of course, but in come cases all impressions do is cost money.
shame there are no pics of the dancing girlies, better luck next time!
As to HSB, shrug. I have a few blogs that I read on HSB and non of them are raving fundamentalist child beaters so I’m afraid I can’t really boycott them as I enjoy reading them. Then again I’m never too sure on these boycott things anyway, the only things that my boycotting Nestle seems to have saved is several hundred pounds I would otherwise have spent on expensive coffee and choc.
I really enjoyed that post. I’m missing you, we’ve not seen you enough recently
Chris, yes it was