we’re not really doing a good job of blogging in order are we?
I guess wed was really a game of 2 halves, but i didn’t balance them well. Sb def losing out to BB. Must do better really. we did get a fair bit of home ed done -sb mostly confident with the subtractions [54-28 type] now, and did a fair bit of maths on edu city – multiplying. Also her reading is nicely moving along. she is really enjoying reading, and a while back i bought a set of usborne young readers from the book people, and now she is racing through them, they are pretty much dead right for what she wants to read. must give back merry her ORT 8 as well as read well now.
She has done some more of the chinese books from enchanted learning, and liked the numbers. She is finding it particularly amusing that 2 looks like=. it is making the maths slightly tedious as we have ‘the joke’ about all the 2′s each time. But lets face it, its a good joke, and she is really happy saying it.
We read random pages out of an encyclopaedia – insects, industrial revolution, volcanos, and talked quite a lot about evolution.
BB and i did a lot of playing, cuddling and messing about. we built towers and boats out of blocks, and knocked them down again, read books, danced and messed about.
After lunch we piled outside to enjoy the sunshine, sowed some carrots and make a makeshift cloche/polytunnel affair to put over the row. I did a fair bit of weeding, and the girls did lots of playhouse and climbing frame play as well. They did help chris with pruning the grapevine, and i popped the babyswing seat on the tri-swing [just as BB growing too big!] She did love it, and SB pushed her as she giggled. Lovely.
When we came in, all girls [including me] turned into grumpalumps for some unknown reason. BB screeching like a banshee over who knows what, SB wailing and me stroppy. so we divvied up, and SB had piano and violin lesson and Daddy kept BB occupied. The peace restored, we read, played games [spot the animal!] and the day back on track.
Every evening this week, SB and I have had an extra 30 mins of games or reading – whatever she wants – before her bed following the departure of BB. SB is really appreciating this.
Today I got home earlier to have a bit more time, and we mostly played and did some tidying up. We made a chocolate brownies – didn’t get the timing right – they were in and out of the oven like yoyo’s! more games and reading and a nice bedtime.
SB’s birthday this sunday. have the castle, no wrapping paper, and family arriving tomorrow to house of chaos!
oh, and i forgot to say, that BB is quite insistant she is a boy ladybird!
Sounds like you’ve been busy. Hope that SB enjoys her birthday and her castle, I shall look forward to reading about it.
hope sb has a fab birthday, I think I’ll be out in my garden this weekend no doubt sighing at it and not doing much!!
thanks claire. kirsty, maybe a square foot job like barbaras will be a start? we initially square footed in leeds, and i think its a fab idea.
must get chris to resurrect my frantic gardener blog [ooh, just mistyped frantic gardenr - how flickr!!]
Square foot gardenign gets my vote too, doesn’t matter what your soil is like, just cover it with cardboard to keep the weeds from popping up, put the bed over the top and browse the seed catalogues!