and not quite not! SB and I have been having quite a chat about HE and what she fancies adding in. she is going to carry on with maths and handwriting [she likes maths, and is pleased about how her handwriting is improving] she wants to do better at spelling – possibly encouraged by us! so we are going to start with the common words, and perhaps get a dictionary for spellings. She prefers piano to the violin, so we are going to do more piano practice, and just chug abit on the back burner with violin. We are going to do more french. she is quite enthused about french at the moment, and BB is keen too. I think our book reading works well, and trying out conversations, so we will hopefully build on that – and i have put in an order!
we are still hoping to do lots of science experiments, and keep trying for one chapter a week of SoTW. the ‘box book’ idea is still good, and i really need one of those book displays to put a selection on to catch her fancy! we are enjoying reading the roman mysteries, and think we might have another go at some latin in a mild way, and since we are on vesuvius, have a bit of reading about volcano’s [and BB can do the volcano experiment again!]
so it sounds like a plan. not sure where we will go with it, but it is fun setting out!
ACE spelling dictionary is handy, and they do a workbooky type thing that takes you through spelling rules and dictionary skills in a fairly nice way.
I want a nice easy to put up leak proof weekend tent too…….
hey, when did I get a little star avatar?
Ernest loves looking stuff up in the dictionary. He’d far rather look it up than guess at how to spell it. We’ve just got some bog standard Collins (iirc) school dictionary.
Am trying to convince myself of pros of Violet going to school atm, and having a bit more breathing space to only have 3 to deal with in the day is definitely one of them – Gwenny and I have various plans
our blog now gives a default gravatar!
T-bird, since I enabled Wavatars on the blog – a built in aprt of the Gravatar support in WP now. They are basically an auto – generated Gravatar icon. Just a bit of fun – but once it gives you one it stays that way, so if you don’t like it you are stuck (not sure if a regeneration can be forced – though chnaging the email address wil work)
Could alwaysmake your own gravatar.
Alternatively you can have a Monster ID instead. Quite like yours T Bird
OK, I think I have made a gravatar …
Not showing here Alison, are you using the same email address with Gravatar used to comment here?
weirdly, it does show on the admin pages for comments
Ah, so it does. I’ve switched settings back to the Wavatar as default and it’s working properly now
Ooh, commenting to see what I get allocated
PMSL love it!
J has got really into using the Oxford Spell It Yourself book (finally). It only lists words, not definitions, and gives possible endings for each one which I think he likes. His only criticism is that it takes 3 years to find a word if you don’t know the first two letters!
At least I got glasses!
giggle gina! thankyou for coming to our blog and commenting, lovely to see you.
I like my star…. what’s Monster Id?
chris changed the gravatars to monsters, but they weren’t nice, so we changed them back! i have sent you a brightkite btw