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getting the most out of a day

usual work day, i think cloning might be in order – though hopefully i could have the version where they forgot to clone the body fat, and that is just halved between my doubles! so having done my duty, driving home i thought i should try and do a music practice with SB [usually i feel a bit up for nothing] so i did, and we had a lovely piano practice together [we don't do these often enough!] then, whils waiting for dinner, i got some really easy first steps in french books and SB, BB and myself chanted words for farm animals, practiced saying if we would want one or not, and if we wanted an enormous one or a little one. SO feeling better that have done what they want!!

not sure what else they did with the day. SB did some french earlier, they had model crocodile making equipment out on the table! def some magic school bus watching!

After tea, sb and I watched the second half of the european womens gymnastics, which she really really enjoyed. telling me how one days he would be watching e and r, as they were v clever and were going to be in competitions! oh and that fran would be excellent at the floor! she read some of her new earth book [ours a fraction of cost as ex library!] mainly the volcano section, and the read to me the magic tree house hawaii one. following on from the fab gawain book, sb wanted some more king arthur, and we happend to have an orchard books legend of king arthur, so have started reading that to her. it is a nice read, but morpurgo def a better man with words! as i left, she was reading a chapter of the magic school bus volcano.

looking forward both to our st georges day weekend, and also to out camping trip at the bank hols :smile:

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educational philosophy

i had a chat with a local HE-er today, also wrote a reply to a list and realised we were overdue a overhaul!

this was our last look at what we were doing, and i think we should sit and think about what we need to do to improve things

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Well, we overslept today as BB was having great highjinx wrt sleeping! i had migraine due to a hectic and long day at work yesterday.  but somehow we got up and out and were only an hour late to the deependers! luckilly they waited for SB for latin, unfortunately, i had not got any science ready, as thought this was a drama week. but will get all the bits ready, and will have them in a box for the next time!! SB and BB both in a weird mood, and really didn’t play or integrate much [giving me a flare up of social isolation fears!!]

katy and i did get some relaxed chatting, and i enjoyed playing the kids accordian. i realised our akismet has been overeager again in trapping people! email me if your comments have disappeared.

ermm, got home and there was a parcel with a sleeping bag for me and BB, and we enjoyed trying them out, and a few bits and pieces. the tent is STILL up in the garden, hope it comes down eventually! [its been up a week!] keeps raining. Looking forward to camping on the bank hols.

SB off to rainbows, which she enjoyed, as always, and BB did some science experiments with me – making things froth and bubble!! When SB got home we had a surprise visit from my BIL, who had gone for a site meeting at a village not far away. Makes a change from site visits in China I get! So had a chat about how things were going. Nice to see him.

Sb then went off to Judo for the first time. SHe really loved it, came back glowing about how fab it was, and how she dropped someone, demonstrating how she had to stand etc. She also won a game because she was very good at wriggling free, and was full of how impressed the boys were. obviously an immediate confidence boost for her. I am so glad I suggested it, and persuaded her to still go – as she has been most uncertain.

SHe’s gone to bed reading magic school bus books. we had a chat on the way back from Katy’s about this and that, and she wants to do a bit more language, poss ‘cos the others in that group are quite ahead with language. And we have also agreed to prioritise music practice more. I had better tell chris that then!!

musical mondays – later, but backdated! and for a bit of a change

pet shop boys. reminds me of a particularly fab job i had in wakefield, when we would listen to this in the mess.

i should blog really

work seems to be getting the better of me, but then, i have been doing A LOT of it! i have, in the middle somewhere, managed to do some connecting with the girls. SB has been racing through her maths and handwriting, and doing a bit of piano. Me being so busy, we have been rather less violining that we should. she has had a weird change for the worst in positioning her hands, so we have been working on that. she is making better and better tone though. both girls seems to have had a real hama fest, and SB has been most inventive with her patterns.

We have also done some much needed tidying. well, their bedroom and the playroom, but it has taken AGES! SB has been particularly loving to BB. today she bought her a kinder egg and made her an easter bunny trail to find it. yesterday she tried to make BB a hama dinosaur [BB threw it on floor mind you].

oh, after being somewhat temperamental on sat [ i had had enough] we did thing of girls choice sun afternoon when i wasn’t being busy at work. SB chose a tesco mini chemistry kit, which is identical to the mini chemistry kit i got from over the road last year. it is quite duff. mostly because it actually doesn’t have most of the ingredients in it [unlike other kits] so i don’t recommend it. having 2 though [as i kept last years] made it easy as both girls did in tandem, and also i had sourced the iodine tincture last year etc! So we had great fun. our bean from the growing science has finally made its way through the maze – hooray!
New tent still standing out in the garden. i hope it gets dry enough at some point to pack away!

SB been playing loads of chess. she really is enjoying it. i hope she is reading some of the book to, but i guess the best way to learn is just to play lots. i have a solitaire chess on this laptop that has a beginners mode, which is so easy she mostly draws on it, so is happy with that.

the last but if the amazon order arrived – some readers for SB – third grade detectives, magic school bus and DK 4′s, and some baby science books for BB. SB totally ecstatic. BB is good at comparative maths, and less ecstatic since her pile smaller!!!

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

i am reading this version to SB, and I just had to state how absolutely beautiful this book is. the wordsmithing is absolutely spellbinding. it is a joy to read aloud to her. the  illustration is also fabulous. Really, really enjoyable. However, having said that, the bit about the lords wife getting into bed with gawain is slightly baffling SB, so i am toning down the swooning going on there! She can’t see what the problem might be! Hmm!! Bless her innocence. we did therefore have a brief discussion on who it might be acceptable to kiss!!

But, can’t recommend this book enough. we got it from the library, but its def one to try and fit on a bookcase!

A camping we will go.

Well, new tent arrived today – the delivery driver had come in the morning when we were out, he came back around 4pm to get rid of the 2 big packages off of his van.The main unit is sitting pitched on the lawn at the moment.
Anyway, we of course need to give it a test run, and anyway, itching to get going with the first camp of the year.  We are planning to go away over the Mayday Bank holiday weekend, probably up to the North Norfolk coast. Maybe stay at Stiffkey (where we camped last year) – on the coast, but right by the salt marsh  – fun for exploring though, so quite  a walk from the sea, esp. when the tide is out. Nice smallish, quiet site, nothing fancy but decent washing facilities. . Or maybe  Deepdale.

Anyone wants to join us, that’d be nice :-)

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my daughters woke me up with their giggling and wiggling, and went downstairs with dad. good, i thought, brekkie in bed. BB came back up and we played loads of silly games in bed, and i got up. SB and BB had made lovely cards for me, and bought me some snazzy new wellies. [as heavilly hinted!]

migraine had luckily gone

chris cooked a breakfast and we tried to get out! happy birthday family phone calls, and herding children, we set of to ely , to see cathedral, city etc. we mostly saw cathedral, did a lot of talking round the outside looking at architecture, different styles, spotting where bits have ‘gone’. we had a lovely lunch and went into cathedral, and SB – as always – was most impressed. the girls did HE proud with looking up at ceilings and windows etc, with various sagagroups going ahh at them! we enjoyed the stained glass window museum. both girls got quite a lot out of it. lady selling tickets obviously not seen a child for a while!

A jolly wander through the town with a cake stop, and back in time to deposit SB and chris at rainbows. BB and i made a rather fab pink and choc marble cake. took a piccie which to me looks like convection in action. chris denies convection currents happen in cake making?? we read some lovely books, and all then enjoyed teatime. SB and BB got the final bit of the playmerrily order, and SB ecstatic with elves, and BB with dinodors . i love the idea of leg warminators by the way!!

SB and i now reading sir gawain and green knight by morpurgo as bedtime story, and really enjoying it. giggled through the apprentice! HONESTLY!

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