A couple of days ago, Stringbean was sitting at the table, with Butterbean. SB was teaching BB about numbers. She wrote down the numbers on a piece of paper, and showed them to BB and went through them telling her they were numbers. Oddly BB seemed to take it in, when I pointed to words and numbers in a book, she said yes and no when asked if they were numbers at the appropriate points. Or was it just a fluke?
Other than that, what else, some more maths – she has done some MPH stuff on weighing and mass, and multiplication. We have eased off on Explode the Code, as it seems to be going ahead of her a bit now, so we are concentrating more on a bit more reading, seeing as she seems to have moved on to actually reading things. She picks up (very) simple books and can read them, and is reading all sorts of other things, so we think she might appriciate a bit more focus on it – we do have some books we have stashed away for her to read herself, so time probably to break out some of those.
Spent rather to much time yesterday morning watching kiddy TV, I got bogged down it fiddling with the wireless network. The wireless AP fell onto the floor and something inside got dislodged. Tracked that down and sorted that, but then got bogged down with getting it all up and running again. I hate wireless networking – it can work fine for ages, and then it decides to not work. And the AP struggles at times with all our solid walls etc. to give coverage over our house, at the moment it has been relocated until I can rejig the network wiring feeding the old box currently in the sitting room feeding downloaded stuff to the TV. so now if you wear the wrong shirt or something the wireless just gives up. Pah! And (while I’m at it) our ISP is giving us a pants ADSL service at the moment…..
She watched some of the Walking with Beasts DVD as well yesterday.
Today was library/storytime day. BB insistent that she take her Muddlepuddle bookbag with her – dragging it along behind her 
Afterwards, coffe, some reading of library books, lunch, BB and SB played for bit mostly making patterns with cuisenaire rods. My mum and dad came round, SB showed off her firefly costume, did some maths and then we headed off to the Puddle, where a very excited BB is going out Trick or Treating with Merry and the girls, followed by a sleepover – first time at someone else’s other than my parents. We are going over to pick her up tomorrow. All the girls were so excited, we were engulfed by a gaggle of noisy excited children (including an unsurprisingly naked Josie :roll:) as soon as we got there, and they seemed to spend the next hour crashing noisly about the place
I got in touble for saying I was coming home and then spending and hour (oops…) drinking tea and chatting with Max though….
And here is our little Firefly. Would probably been better if we’d cleared the wooden train track out of the way first…..
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Outfit is great Helen, well done!
I have tried several ISPs, and TBH I don’t think there is a good one. FWIW, I think ours (plus) is about as good as it gets, so long as you can get by without any support, because they are a bunch of useless, self-important idiots. We can’t get very high speeds, because we are a long way from the exchange, but mostly the connection is ok and we get static IPs which is nice.
We are trying to puzzle out just how much Small knows about letters and numbers – all we know so far is that he is another blonde.
Love the Firefly, Big honours us from time to time with “shows” a little in the same vein – wild dancing and song.
I go for wired networking, long patch cables and not checking email on the toilet.
It seems to be simpler that way.
Yay! Me and Ms R were clapping wildly at the end of the firefly dance. It was really good and the soundtrack was great too!
Our wireless network is being weird again after months of working perfectly. The wrong shirt sounds like a pretty good theory.
thanks. SB did a lovely dance. I asked chris today if he thought I might mind a video of me bf BB on the internet. i don’t think he had paid it much attention, but I guess he knew I wouldn’t really!
I did notice – once i’d uploaded it
– shades of Barbara and Dynamic Earth, but I guessd you wouldnt mind. Could ahve put one of those blurry blobs over it like on faces on TV.
I do like wireless networks, I just think they have their place. I think big problem must be interference – cordless phones for ex. work on the same freq. band and microwaves emitt radio wave radiation (not m-waves) on the same sort of freq. – sit in the kitchen with the laptop , turn on microwave, warch the wireless connection get very bad (or even drop altogether – our used to until I changed the channel number)
And there seems to be loads of WTF moments, like sitting 3 feet from a wireless AP which you computer then says it can’t find !
I suspect that the problem with ISP’s is lots of us are to stingy to pay what it costs – the consumer market is heading very much in a never mind the quality how cheap is it sort of mentality – and in that sort of situation service goes. I think there are good isps – such as AAISP – but you pay for it (our old isp Metronet was pretty good, until they got bought up by Plus…)