pesky pixies

BB has a theory. she believes that pixies live in your nose. they have a corridor in your brain, and can at times poke out of your nose and say things that get you into trouble. i love bb’s theory. she has had it for quite a few months now, and i thought i should quickly blog it before it disappears!

well, i guess we have done a good week of HE from both girls. SB has finally got annoyed and grumpy with spelling mistakes, and has made a definite decision that she wants to improve all her english – handwriting, spelling and all. SO this week she has done a fair bit of getty and dubay, a spelling workbook and today she decided to restart explode the code. SHe stopped explode the code at book 4 about 3 years ago, having cracked reading, but still hating writing. it is a synthetic phonics scheme that worked really well for us. She is hoping that as she does the upper level ones, with the blends etc, they will fix into her head for spellings. i don’t know if they will, but we allready have level 6, so we might as well see. certainly this week she has plugged away at it. The other thing considering in the back of my mind is education city, as they have loads of word games. perhaps for her and BB?

SO, BB also been working hard this week. she is loving getty and dubay A, copying the letters and drawing pictures. I am hoping some of the letters of the alphabet stick there! we also do word games when i read to her at bedtime – we chose what is the best word, and she tries to find it on the pages. BB also did some maths today.

We also did some crafting today. There are loads of semi-abandoned craft kits in the house, and we have determined to decrease their number! BB painted some of her plaster of paris ‘statues’ and SB did a paint by numbers and also a paint an eggcup kit. All very relaxing. I read countless stories to them from the various barefoot books we have.

I think i bought the silk road book as one day i do plan to travel it! Anyway, i like reading and crafting, so a lovely afternoon! SB and I did some more prof layton. Actually i have finished, but missed out a few puzzles, so have gone back in to find them, but can’t find number 32, and 1 piece short for robot dog – grr!! BB cooking mama-ed. We caught up on postcrossing, looked at places on globe, tidied playroom and chris has been putting up loads of ikea bookcases for the hallway. looks much better than our higgledypiggledy ones, and they are being moved about the house. A bit of resource sorting – we have lost getty and dubay e – where i wonder? Also refilled the bird feeders again – we have lots of birdfeeders and they go down v quickly! also food on floor. happy to see long tailed tits, various other tits, finches as well as the allegedly rare starlings and more common garden birds!

BB and I played some find and match games with cards whilst chris tried to improve on his wii resorts jetski – lets not talk about that too much! BB has been a bit reluctant about the wii, which is as shame as it was bought for chris [so glad he is enjoying it!] but for whole family use. SO i tempted her with waveboarding, and in her first go was already better than chris. cheered up by this immensly [she really doesn't like not being the winner!] she did wii resort cycling. I really loved watching her do this, as there is a lot of arm effort involved, and she tried to make her mii cycle as frenetically as she does, though the mii got tired more quickly. so she is happy with at least these 2 games. we only have 1 wii motion sensor though, and think we will need to buy another for the 2 person games – slippery slope or what!