K’nex without camera!

I had my appraisal today, and tho not sparkling, as had such a difficult year last year, was at least a ‘pass’ tho with loads of plans i must adhere to to make sure that next year is sparkling. hopefully i might achieve some of them! I ddn’t sleep much last night worrying, and stressing. dh, bless him, went to tescos at ungodly o clock to let me print out the rest of the stuff this morning as the printer ran out last night, and now it has run out of colour!! Anyway, v short temporary breathe! I fiddled with some urgent work, and then took the aft at home to make up for losing last weds to work. [hoping that ok] . Have to say, the bing bang theory what is keeping me sane at the mo.

I picked up half the deepender children and joined DH for his first joint run K’nex session, which was fab . He is hopefully really pleased with how that went. He and a fellow home educator had hired a load of k’nex from STEM and he had printed off lots of info from various k’nex kits. It can be said that the children fell on it like ravening hordes and it was extremely successful. there was a bit of a 2 technique thing, most boys built cars/planes, most adults [and bb] followed some instructions, and A and SB made there own imaginative designs, and then A joined SB in making a bridge, as did Jfish and then P and in the end it nearly spanned the room How Cool! BB made most of a motorsed windmill from own design and then played outside. Great bring and share lunch and i took some of the bigger kids for a quick geocache – to the bemusement of 30 odd ppl waiting for the bus I said it was a kids clue hunt and some of them joined in looking! we found it after the bus had left however.

Dropped SB at ballet, BB did some dinosaur mosaic craft from baker ross and on her return SB did maths and galore park english as i had been a tad unimpressed since she had only managed recorder all morning. Hearing she was reading

as her bedtime story, and had been impressed she knew the early history reassured me that something is going in!! She has really enjoyed it. oh and the camera bit? DH forgot to bring it!

ok, ok, so i took some truly dreadful photos with iphone – it just doesn’t do good enough pics – tho that could be the way i use it