another photopost day

we did alot today together. partly to make up for me being way off for the rest of the week! Started with SB telling me it was time to get up and make jam as i had said first thing!! it wasn’t even 9am! so i rebelled and got up with the bells went for the church service. One of the things i love about living here is the church bells. practie thursday, service sunday and wedding s if lucky on a saturday. the girls were still breakfasting and so i went out and watered greenhouse and picked some more french and broad beans.

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having got the plums all squishy, they were still too hot to take the stones out, so we did some more home ed whilst waiting. Well, Sb did some music theory, but BB was ds-ing. DH had found her rumblepack,so she was playing pokemon. SB then also did some piano prac as we were going to have lunch shortly

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cheesy beans on toast eaten, and SB and grandad did the straining and destoning of the jam whilst I read story of the world 3 about china having a third of the worlds population at the time, and then the jam was put on to boil. obviously, there were some moments to use so SB did some recorder practice. SHe is sounding really nice currently

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SB then popped the jam into jars, having supervised the setting point bit [it seems the just under is prob just right after all that!] and was v happy with the result. Grandad begged to hear the clarinet, so she practiced the high notes. there is a definite improvement.

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we looked at her ticksheet for the week, which was looking pretty sparse [no music prac at all until today - eek!] and decided to do story of the world. however BB wanted to finish a level on her pokemon, so SB read to me in french.

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we did look at story of the world altogether – the punic wars etc and then went out to catch the rabbits. it was a torrential downpour and we all got entirely soaked. SB and i changed clothes even… BB agreed to do a short recorder practice, sb then helped her with a bit in pokemon whilst shelling our broad beans, and we then all played a board game – 10 days in europe,which SB won.

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And that is how you child led educate one and autonomously educate the other. or is that playing to yours/their strengths and taking account of differences? dunno, but we had a lovely day altogether, encouraging, snuggling, peering over shoulders and just being a family.