i know, but it is a home ed blog, and I like to see what we have done!
B4 the randrops we did some explode the code, and also looked at the DK a street through time [fabulous book!]. SB read a red nose reader.
Whilst the raindrops were here, we read a book about the human body, and had a quiz on it, and used the steth to listen to heart and lungs. Did a bit on healthy eating as well.
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Posted in Daft Stuff, General
Thank you for your email of 24 December to Caroline Flint about breastfeeding in public places. As you will appreciate, Ms Flint receives a large amount of correspondence and cannot respond to all this mail personally. Your email has been passed to me for reply. The Government is fully committed to the promotion of breastfeeding, which is accepted as the best form of nutrition for infants. Under the NHS Plan, we have a commitment for ‘increased support for breastfeeding’ and a target in the Priorities and Planning Framework to increase breastfeeding initiation rates by two per cent a year. Local Delivery Plans require the NHS to return local data on breastfeeding initiation rates for the planning period 2005-08. The Department is keen to support women in their decision to breastfeed and to continue to breastfeed. Since 1999, the Department has undertaken several activities to promote and support breastfeeding. The commitment to the promotion of breastfeeding was demonstrated with the successful completion of the three-year Infant Feeding Initiative supported by the Public Health Development Fund. This included seventy nine best practice projects on breastfeeding, which have now been evaluated and published. This report provides an important contribution to understanding ways in which women in communities least likely to breastfeed may be supported. An Infant Feeding and Child Nutrition resource pack has been produced and distributed to all practising members of the Royal College of Midwives and Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association. This pack contains, amongst other things, the publication Good practice and innovation in breastfeeding, which is supported and endorsed by professional and voluntary organisations and by the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative. This publication aims to provide a practical evidence-based resource for health professionals to support good practice and innovation in supporting breastfeeding. It is also recommended as a minimum standard of practice for NHS Trusts by the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services launched in September 2004. The Commission for Health Improvement has now set an indicator that will look at progress towards meeting the target. In addition, the Department also supports the annual National Breastfeeding Awareness Week, a public health campaign to promote the benefits of breastfeeding. The last campaign was held from 8-14 May 2005, focusing on increasing support for breastfeeding. The Department is keen to provide mothers with information and to support health professionals. A pictorial leaflet has been made available to mothers and health professionals through the NHS, aimed at communicating the practical aspects of ‘how to breastfeed’. A range of promotional materials is also available to use throughout the year that support and promote breastfeeding. The Department also works in collaboration with voluntary organisations and professional bodies to promote and support breastfeeding. A representative of each of the voluntary organisations sits on the National Network of Breastfeeding Co-ordinators (NNBC) group. Other initiatives also demonstrate our interest in, and commitment to, breastfeeding. As announced in the recent White Paper the new Healthy Start Scheme will provide vouchers to low income breastfeeding mothers to exchange for fruit, vegetables and milk. Healthy Start will provide greater opportunities for pregnant women and young children in low-income families to receive advice on diet and nutrition, including breastfeeding as well as other health issues. Health professionals will have a more visible role in the Healthy Start Scheme. A communications and training programme for health professionals will be introduced in parallel to the new scheme. As set out in the NHS Improvement Plan, prevention of disease and tackling inequalities in health will need to assume a much greater priority in the NHS. The White Paper on improving health sets the framework for action to improve diet and nutrition. We have also made a commitment to review the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations (1995) with a view to further restricting the advertisement of infant formula and will continue to press for amendments to the EU Directive on infant formula and follow-on formula. I hope you find this reply helpful. Yours sincerely, Kalpana Chauhan Customer Service Directorate Department of Health
has absolutely nothing to do withe breast feeding in public laws at all does it!!
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mine! I read SB the boudicca britannia story and cried over them dying. I obviously need a strong dose of sunshine. Or something.
before that she Joe the dragoned – tangrams and spellcatcher. We also had a look at Google Earth
SB now being all waily in the bath – perhaps my blues are catching.
She had a great day at nursery. BB is also shouting – such a rarry girl these days.
We had rather a good day. We did some tidying, and my mother arrived to stay over night. SB and BB very excited!!
Sb even read to mum – good on her! And did 6 pages of singapore maths with her. So felt we had shown education. Mostly we were playing. We had a woolly mammoth wooden skeleton thing to build, so me and SB had fun doing that. She played lots of games with my mum – the tube joining game, build a beetle, shape snap, jigsaws. Also wrapped up a present and did a couple of pictures. In fact was altogether charming and gorgeous!
Mum had been disappointed in the dance mat she got SB for christmas, so bought one from ELC in the sale. they had a great time doing the free dance together! BB kept switching it off mind you.
When my mum started to look like being in the wind tunnel was a bit much, I settled SB down with cbeebies to navigate around, and BB got a lookin – she had been trying hard for a while! Finally all settling down to play with lego. finished with some just so stories and others at bedtime. The Britannia book is really good – thanks Merry.
Nice lazy day and chat. I think we got away with mum not going into the room with xmas tree – but hope chris tidies it away before barbara comes! After beanies went to bed, we chatted family tree, and managed to work away at the Hellowell/Rushworth side a bit. Shame they seem to be the most popular surnames in Halifax, and the census writers had no idea on spelling! One poor chap is variously linneus, lyneus, lennis and lewis!! And when you add to this that part of the families prediliction for being unwed, going into service and being brought up by siblings etc…[no wonder it is proving difficult].
I think I maybe using it to sublimate my present disatisfaction with my life.
Mum went to my Nan’s on thursday [little Nanny], but forgot to take the triwalker, so they popped in yesterday while I was at work. In the eve, SB had ballet and did some explode the code as we have been a bit slow in that this week.
Blogging has pointed out the serious lack of muzzy and piano too!! Also history of the world. hmmmm
Posted in art and crafts, Blogging, Books, Dance/drama, General, literacy, numeracy, Stringbean's HE, writing
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Posted in Blogging, General, Ponderings
Yep, BB slept through last night. It isn’t the first time, but I forget when it last happended. Except for a brief waking around 9.30 ish she was slept from about 8.30 to 7.30.
Which was nice, and more than her sister did, but then she doesn’t really disturb us very much.
Posted in Butterbean, General
Don’t know what the beans did at the start of the day, except that it did include some Singapore maths. They then went intio the city to have lunch [apparently a very nice pizza!] and try and find BB some shoes now she is walking. SB was very disappointed that her feet haven”t grown though.
When I joined them, they had so far failed to do this, as needed to go to the other clarkes across the city. So I had the pleasure of being there when BB got her first shoes – very nice. She soon got into tramping around with them, and was stunningly cute as she kept trying to make a break for it. For exceptionally good value, we Got SB a pair of princess slippers for ?2. Should have bought loads and ebayed them for ?5!
We then failed to decided what to buy with the Johns Lewis vouchers quite spectacularly – I hate shopping really. Shops should have comfy sitting down and thinking places, not feeling all hemmed in. SO vouchers are still intact.
Came home and had a very healthy chips for tea – oops. My amazon order had arrived – which ncluded the just so stories and britannia for Merry’s curriculum. We have already caught up on the britannia. SB thinks it is great doing British myths and legends – partuicularly as it kicked off with a reference to the trojan war. Also started the Just So which she rather enjoyed. SB cbeebied whilst BB tried on her shoes again and clumped around the house.
for her bed time story, SB read me most of the M and S enormous turnip book . She sounded out the long words, and I helped with some of the blends. She was great! So she got a new story cd – fairytales read by bernard cribbens.
I have belatedly watched child of our time – and not worried for once, as I think SB and BB do have a close bond. Folloed on with the first installment of Elizabeth.
Now for the first installment of sleep here! [btw, both beans went to sleep much more easily tonight]
Posted in Butterbean, General, literacy, numeracy, Stringbean's HE
actually, am feeling simmering at the moment, so blog should cool me down. Having spent 45 mins or so putting SB to bed, 15 mins later I spend 30 mins or so failing to put BB to bed. I just can’t bear my whole evening being taken up by getting children to sleep. [or not]. Have unceremoniously handed BB to Chris. She has – however – taken 4 oz from a bottle for me, so not all doom and gloom.
So to the weekend, lets see what I can remember? on the overtly educational, we have done explode the code – SB happy to do it, and races through the pages, so not bad. She has done loads of webland, going forwards and backwards through the ‘editions’ that we have. When we started with webland, I used to sit beside her reminding her to listen to the stories to do the games, where as now she flicks all over the place with great confidence. She also seems to remember a lot of it now. on the IT front, there was a fair bit of cbeebies as well – particularly the stories.
Seed sowing, and discussions around that. [and counting – she was particularly taken when I clumped the broad beans in multiples of 5 so I could add them up more quickly than she could count them, and I saw her later on having a go with this idea.] SB read some of the easier books to me. She is getting confident to try and sound out longer words – though not very good at blends. We have gone swimming, read a number of books – the theme has been loosely underwater/seas or the poles. So looked at the globe, a book on the poles, and her underwater jigsaw books. taking in finding nemo characters!
A great hit of the weekend has been a buy from ebay – a snappit build a donkey and cart set. It was supposed to be part of her birthday present, but why not spread things out. She has put it together and taken it apart numerous times over the weekend – initially using the picture to get things right, and then just remembering.
We have also done lots of drawing – and played around with chalks on dark card as well today. She has written bits to go with all her pictures – the last even spelled by herself – lov SB to Chris [asked me about the H] lots ov lov [she remembered love doesn't have an u anyway!] We have been having a chat on and off about silent letters – like w in write. She had remembered k in knee from a discussion over a month ago.
Our Jenga -alike has been used to make forts, castles and patterns, and she has spent a lot of time with the dress up flower fairies, making stories for them to act along to.
A lot of the time SB has been quite self-contained, so that I have had a lot of 1 to 1 time with BB. She is being giggly and silly at the mo – so quite a laugh! Though she does try and feed me all sorts of rubbish as we go along – plastic pigs were todays menu, and specks off the carpet – lovely! She has her lower molar on the left rhough, and the upper one is nearly though. She is always keen to play with SB, and I loved watching SB try to feed her tea. It seems that although there is quite an age difference, they do get a lot out of each others company.
No doubt I’ve missed lots of stuff out. It seems that mostly I have juggled 2 children’s needs fairly well – for a change! That we have done more educational things than I though whilst having fun. They do just slip in don’t they!
Next week we reall must take down the Christmas tree, and tidy SB’s bedroom before Barbara visits.
Oh, and I have calmed down. It is past 10, and my evening will start with Sir Robert Winston [I wonder if BB is asleep?]
Edited to add: AH, flickring and I have rememerbed what I had forgotton – my friend Katrien , who used to live in Ely with her family, popped in on Saturday, as they are moving their final things – to Belgium. Somewhere nice for us to visit one day! And I have promised SB a barge holiday one day – like angelina ballerina. She does wish she had the box set of the books…
Posted in art and crafts, Butterbean, gardening, General, geography, literacy, numeracy, SB-PE, writing
… do future dinners grow. Not much gets sown till late February, but this weekend we have sown the T and M packet of mixed aubergines, some green globe artichoke and a packet of braod beans. All from thompson and Morgan and all in modules in a heated propagator.
It crossed my mind that this year, I may not have to sow everything into a module and plant out when getting established, as we no longer have such thick clay. Although we had raised beds, drainage was still a problem, and clay is cold for so long, and slugs so rampant, that all module was the only way.
We missed the autumn sowing of the broad beans though, so these will be our catch ups. Another packet will get sown outside towards the end of Feb.
