Category Archives: Stringbean’s HE

This follows on really with Nics post on Monster and Teeny [very unfair titles for 2 gorgeous children!! - or is it the parents???????]

we have also done a fair bit of thinking at melrose, its led to me starting to write a list of resources, subject headings, and now am going to think of different topics, what we have on them and what excursions etc, so a sort of charlotte mason approach, as I will try and kick it off with stories – not quite FIAR, but that kind of idea. [TBH I just didn't like how the FIAR manual read, rather than the idea].

We will also do other things – such as singapore maths, phonics reading and i think we will getty and dubay. keep going with german, based around Muzzy, formalise the music a little bit now, and do some art apprectation as well as hands on – seeing Merry’s resources there was v helpful!

What will we get over time having been to Melrose? I liked the berenstain bears science [as SB keen on Dr Seuss] , and if I’d known Katy was selling it, I would have bought it myself. Got DK books, but will also visit sonlight when I have an address for them for that people book. Have also got the usbourne time traveller from ebay. Sonlight can provide the getty and dubay as well, and perhaps the history of the world series, which I also think is great.

To start with, so that we can see what we do, and how it works, I think we will have a loose timetable – especially when I get more time off and chris and I share more. Since I can grab photocopier at work when on call, I think we will photocopy pages to put in folders, and try and have a monthly curriculum that we dip in and out of, but have sorted resources in advance. As yet, this is all wild and woolly, and hopefully will metamorphosize into something beautiful that suits SB’s learning needs, yet also doesn’t encourage our chaotic approach to life.

SB was very pleased that she got a medal today for being a good girl at nursery. We have a piccie of her with it [CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS]. notice that she is still being Abi [purposely]

Bad news is that she has been invited to a party on the same day that we arranged hers. so either none of her nursery friends will come, And she will be miserable, or we will have to move it. serves us right for being slow with invites.

Had a pressie for BB in the post – a rather lovely babygym. SB thought it v wsteful as we have one already [phew, we are instilling some notion of frugality] and have a nice photo of that too .[CHRIIIIIIIIIIS]

since otjer people’s melrose piccies up, and we haven’t received any objections, I think we should put up ours. [CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS – after all he is on the ‘puter upstairs with the pics!!!

As have said in Merry’s comments, I have done it again. I am keen for SB to have more language skills than myself, so have been Muzzy german-ing. to supplement that, I bought a year ago some DVD’s from the greman amazon, including sesame street. I thought sesame street would be excellent, with all its letters and counting. The DVD doesn’t have any of this though, just the bert bits which irritate me. ANyway,lets SB hear german spoken I guess.

SO this time, I decided now she has a leappad to get a few in early german – sounds sensible?? On ebay, this chap sells them, and I bought a richard scarry one – ok, and a tad ABC one, which said it taught english. Excellent I thought, ideal for learning german. WRONG. It appears to be only in english – sigh, so I could have got it far cheaper over hear, and in fact think it might be part of a set I am getting for SB birthday. So will need to ebay it – how much I will get as cover in german I don’t know. Also don’t know whether to open to confirm all in english, and then sell it for even less on ebay.

SULK AND SWEAR

We do do other things apart from cleaning and viewing, honest!!
As a present to SB for being so well behaved, she got a richard scarry leap pad book, and seemed to really like it. We went through it together, and then her other 2 books, so leappadded out.

We have also been pirates today [in the viking boat] looking for hairbrush treasure [her choice], and Even pirate Alys in the boat – Chris may do piccie if we don’t drunk too much shampers after SB goes to bed. Our pirating antics didn’t put buyers off though!This led to a discussion on pirates and looking at the bit on webland. We weblanded for some time on other bits as well. I think next installment is next week?

A re-enactment of princess and the pea and other stories with puppets, and then some mooching with a tots tv video. So quite a variety of low key home ed things going on with lots of attention to offset house hunt.

BB a delight – v smiley happy baby. She is v interested in her hands now, and gurgles to us.

Hopefully Chris is going to add pictures soon to this weblog. We had a great day together. We started with a bit of baby massage, with SB helping me. BB does seem to like it – even though SB’s technique hardly a recognised one.

Then we did almost all the jigsaws that we have. SB loves jigsaws, and romped through them. Must crack open the harder ones!

Having read the DK Viking book yesterday, we decided to ake some Viking things today. We were going to be simple. but arrival of a reversible car seat for BB [ She is 16-ish lb, so already looking big in size 0 carseat, so have bought a britax 0-4years one] meant that we had a huge box. If Chris pops on a photo, you can see our Viking ship with dragon head. I did the basic shell under SB’s direction. She then stuck on some coloured paper, and then went on adventures. Vikings and pirates seemed a bit interchangeable in her stories, but fair enough.

We did some book reading and cooked tea together – a yummy bits and pieces curry, then a burst of cbeebies while wating for Chris to come home asa bit of relaxing time out fr her, and some BB time for me. I feel we have had a lovely day together.

Tomorrow we go down to Huntingdon in the evening and view a couple more places on Sat, as well as the victorian one again. I am just so impatient to sell ours!