wednesday co-operative

should start with tues tho The kids and DH went to an animal sanctuary on a home ed visit. BB loved it, they had a good group and enjoyed the chat and got to stroke animals. the goats and chickens were her favourites. SB wasn’t quite so enthusiastic, I don’t think the leader of their group quite got the pitch right, and they also didn’t get to stroke things. BB did like going to the dog area, and seeing the area only for workers. BB has been to loads of things tho because the suit SB well, so not a bad thing to be the other way round. BB says daddy has said we can get chickens from there…

No idea what play eyc may have happened, needs an edit by DH but then there was BB’s hosp followup for the HSP she had before Xmas. She is doing well. Didn’t make it to swimming tho. I was v late back from work as well. V stressed this week about a number of things, need to simplify!

Anyway, moving on to today, we had a cooperative wednesday, with various families bringing bits to do to le ciel rouge. So I brought science and we did another of the RS4K chapters – on unmixing. the experiment wasn’t dramatically successful, so we did felt tip and water chromatography as a back up, and had a long chat about the experiment. I do like her texts, but a number of the experiments are not v exciting, and other things could be reasonably done that are more interesting… ANyway, also had spelling practice, which was enjoyed [a suprise that TBH!] and a request for more. Poetry, a french game or 2 [much enjoyed] sewing mother’s day bookmarks and a romp thro minimus chpt 1 with the youngest and r, and secundus chpt 1 and a discussion of verbs. SB and C did a bit of music theory first thing, there was a fair bit of trampolining and BB waas v taken by her replacement djeco craft kit. [thanks merry].

The kids got more time to play games, there was a relaxed but productive feel to it. i was a bit to stressy about some other things to react well to BB having desire to only do her new craft kit – which i should have just said yes to, but when my brain is on a loop it is hard to think properly at the best of times, let alone when there is wailing and wingeing!! However, she and Jpuddle seemed to be having a great time together. Need kids feedback as we do these sessions on what works and what doesn’t.

we came home to SB’s last brownies [sob at growing up so quickly!!] she had a lovely time, and gave out her buns for ppl to eat  [there were spares so i got one = delicious. vegan choc and cinnamon] and now she is at judo. i liked that when we were choosing adjectives to describe herself in latin she chose benignus. I like that. friendly is a good thing to be .