and speedily catching up!
Home ed
usual things really, SB doing a fair bit. struggling with the galore park history syrwtl 1 level of now detail and interrogation, so helped her out a bit, with a mixture of other resources and wikipaedia, think she has got the measure. Also need to sit with her over music theory. otherwise she is independantly cracking on, and we review bits and pieces. Reading loads and loads, as always. Also practicing well for her piano grade 3 that is coming up, and clarinet, as her teacher suggests she might do grade 3 next term. BB is reading lots of apple tree farm books now. Definitely getting the hang of this :), and she is also doing lots of careful crafting, drawing and sewing.
we had another great wodensmeet, continuing on with the real science for kids physics, this time investigating inertia and momentum with marbles. Preparing a storyline for 3 little pigs animation, and making some fab rabbits and assorted other critters from old socks. other art, chatting etc also went on.
home ed groups – arts award, forest skills etc and usual after school activities – BB is really enjoying judo and doing it without sb now. both got some more badges at gymnastics. sb level2 and bb level 5. SB is loving the spanish element in her ballet class currently and would like to learn to flamenco.
I had d and v for 3 days 
which was a nightmare from a work perspective, not v pleasant, and also stopped us going to an interesting looking CHEF thing on calendars and clocks, that i was told nails would be involved 
it didn’t stop us going to the CHEF science faire, which turned out to be absolutely fabulous and we all really enjoyed. talked to interesting parents and interested children. picked up some experiments to repeat at home and had a great time. Thankyou
we had a musicetc, where i repeated one of the science faire experiments and we talked about surface tension, also some latin was done and practical music. i almost failed to leave in time for my sewing fest with a lady with a skill at tudor corsetry, and we spent 10 hours setting the reeds into the bodies. hoping the next sessions go more swiftly!!
my parents came for the weekend, and lovely to see them. particularly as dad getting over a big op – nephrectomy for cancer. we now have the histology, and completely removed, so we can all breathe more easily we didn;t know when he came up, so a bit stressful. this may have been another impediment to blogging.
oh, and we have played lots of board games, in particular carcasonne and forbidden island. BB is getting to be a good game player too . I think this will do for a catch up
Lots of good things