we had an unexpected visit from The Babs today, which was lovely, and 2/3 of her offspring, who looked at rabbits, played on the wii etc for the morning. did mean another slow HE day – and since ‘come out’ about ticklists! SB did do some galore park junior science 2 and some singapore maths 4A, and BB did some explode the code 1 and some singapore maths 1a.
B and i had a lovely chat, wishing we could change the world and the financial crisis still to come. As families with wages dependent on public sector it is a bit daunting anyway, let alone all the other bits and pieces to come. trying to be philosophical about things! we discussed further home ed things, including the real science for kids series. i dunno! think it might be nice to use the real science 4 kids level 1 for the younger group and maybe try level 2 for the older group whilst in this year of flux? do the other latinetc want to consider this? and maybe the babs or kirsty could send me the link to look at bits of it online [again!] 
the kids then dd some home ed whilst i cleaned out skittles cage, he had a runabout and the big babies went in his run for a bt. then took BB to gym. she really is a tiny dot there and has so much fun and then we went to deependers for handmade pizza and pudding. a lovely evening, and enjoyed the tour of the solar power as well [sb also had gym and left new leotard there on second outing - luckilly found!]
http://www.gravitaspublications.com/ is the site – to look at the books you click on the store and what book you want to see but they’ve been updating the site and it’s down at the moment.
Sounds like a fab day, even if it was a slow paced one. Sometimes they are the best. Giggle at the ticksheets!
I’m looking at Real Science too. But I have soooo much other stuff to finish off first!
Grrr to uncertainty with public sector pay, in fact to uncertainty in general really.
well that’s it. i think everyone gonna be hit hard except those v poorest and those v richest [the first cos they can't lose more and the second cos they can lose 20% and although i imagine it will still be noticeable, there are some easier sacrifices to make rather than probably home!] so not wanting any particularly singled out pats on back for loss! but to make the point that most ppl in the country will feel significantly affected.
site back now – we were talking about it today and didn’t realise they only have Chemistry at level 2 at the moment. Maybe it won’t be long until they get the next ones on though, not sure.
I decided that seeing as our kids will probably be working until they’re 70+, then leaving school, working for a few years, and going to university mind-20′s will still give them over 40 more years at work afterwards, and might be a plan!
Very bloody depressing though. And I can’t quite work out how the government think we are going to pay more in university fees whilst getting less money. It doesn’t exactly make working hard any more appealing.
no, i think it makes working hard seem pretty stupid actually.