I have spent the last however long – at least since friday – thinking the 27th was a tues, so rang dad to say happy birthday, he says it is yesterday, and today is the 28th.
bugger bugger bugger. And i forgot to give him the cheque for his golf clubs in the card.
How crap a daughter is that.
Good thing he loves me.
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I think i may have a touch of Nic’s recent problem…
the beans went tp Chris’s parents today, and seem to have had ajolly time – SB made some biscuits and watched cbeebies [all she can remember!] And BB was a bit grumbly – well, she should have had some sleep! SB did a nice hama car with the big beads.
When we all met upm SB confessed to doing no match and sort, so she did 4 pages explode the code 2, and 4 of singapore primary maths 1a. we are certainly not rampaging through the maths at the mo! However, there is no rush, and i think she is happier that the match and sort is a bit easy, and she gets tested with the sweetie games we play – and seed sowing multiplication! Anyway, she is mostly consolidating 10′s and units, so needs to play her jojo in numberland some more. We did various imagination games, musical statues – BB lost!
I ‘felt unwell’ so bailed out of high interactiveness, but Sb wanted me to read her some of her waiting usborne young readers – and being mean I refused. I reminded her that they are going to be our fun books together when she reads. So she read a red nose reader cover to cover. I offered to get her the yellow ones, but she said she will read all the red ones first. TBH, i am not sure at what point you announce they read, but she certainly does. just needs practice!
I really have 2 most gorgeous girls.
Posted in art and crafts, Butterbean, Cooking, General, literacy, numeracy, writing
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i am having trouble with my flickr badges!
mother’s day didn’t really happen here, as Baby played up last night and Chris is not a limited sleep kind of chap!
Anyway, we had a potteringy day, and I did get a card at lunchtime.
Before you all point out the hama heart
I made it for my Mum’s birthday!
So, we did some hama, and SB made another mothers day card for Nana F, having decided she didn’t like the other one. I went to check on veg patch, and came back with asparagus seeds, so we sowed them.
We all went outside in the afternoon and generally messed about, playing games and hide and seek. Chris managed to plant another fruit tree.
Then in for some final hama-ing. I read some usborne stories from around the world,
and threaded hama for window decoration. Thats about it.
And I so needed to feel good about myself as well today as a very hard week at work ahead. 
Posted in art and crafts, gardening, General
Butterbean was a total pain last night, woke up around 2.30 – 3 am, basically spent the next 11/2 – 2 hours crying before going back to sleep. I got so fed up stting on her bed that I came downstairs to watch something on the TV. I think she slept from 4.30 to 6, but I didn’t really.
I did how ever learn that there are only 17 types of wallpaper patterns on some program on BBC2 (it’s all to do with the mathematic of group theory or somesuch – and with how you can repeat a pattern on a plane)
Posted in Butterbean, Daft Stuff, General
life is a bit manic for me at them moment, with lots of really late evenings at work – mostly because I got co-opted into being the union rep. Hmmm. Bad move, except that there is huge need for someone of my mouthiness. I just hope that I don’t end up with a dreadful troublemaker label for my efforts.
Anyway, so to today. SB started by making another mothersday card for Nanna French. The sun was shining so we were out into the garden to plant and sow. Obviously planting and sowing with just me trying to keep an eye on 2 girls, jollying one along, and preventing the other from random unplamting and eating was not always straightforward. particularly as SB took it rather badly when her planted broad beans were unplanted and trodden on. We did manage to get into a rhythm, with me and BB ‘sowing’ broad beans [imperial green longpod] at one end of a row, and SB planting them [jubilee hysore]at another. Sb wanted me to help her though, and was put out that if I did, BB would surely rampage. The sooner we have the wendy house for independent pottering about in the better! [it is going in the veg patch.
like a ray of sunshine, Chris came out with coffee, but more importantly cake. We all sat and picnicked, and even BB must have agreed that cake was more tasty than compost. SB then ran about like a proverbial loon and bounced on her bouncer, climbing on the frame, and bouncing BB on the trampoline.
When BB went in for nappy change and snooze, SB and I sowed a row of mixed carrots [nantes frubund] and radish [scarlet globe]. This being so much fun, we sowed another. We usually have bog all luck with carrots – but that was in Leeds, so lets see how we do here! [I miss Leeds!]
i then hoed approx 1/4 of the veg area, and popped in half of the onion sets [names!] other half to go. I started cleating the asparagus bed of weeds too, but was happy to pass that over the Chris, as SB getting ravenous.
We made more tickabilla creepy crawlies for lunch, and she then spent ages on the Nick Jnr website for games. Getting bored, I went off and did some seed sowing indoors for the propagator. Lots of things, as getting to peak sowing! Mussleburgh leeds, spring onions, Pea [misty and rondo], artichoke green globe, second sowing of mangetout [oregon], and a tray of salad leaves [mixed]. SB seeing what I was doing sowed some sunflower [russian giant]
BB woke up and was fed, so SB did some sticker maths, and had a go at the easiest Kakuro – thanks Alison for the link. She got the hang of it quickly, but lots of scaffolding!
We all played rampaging games together, fuzzy felt, and making lots of noise with the noisy toys [my poor ears!] and whatever came out of the box really for the rest of the afternoon. Chris has done a bit more tidying up of the veg area.
Since we are planning to watch the ice age on tV tonight, the girls had an early tea – through which SB nick jnr’ed again, and are now bathed, so I better go. SB is now doing a guardian sudoko – rather well.
will add photos after bedtime, and perhaps get that gardening blog going!
Posted in art and crafts, Butterbean, gardening, General, numeracy, science, Stringbean's HE, writing
well, we will get round to some proper blogging, but until then I have enjoyed reading some of the articles featured on the
12th Carnival of homeschooling
And here are the Previous Carnivals
Posted in General
Spurred our first digital camera in June 2002 we started posting daily pictures of Stringbean on our website. When we started this there weren’t such good tools around for photoblogging etc. so it was done manually. Probably becuase of the effort it took, we eventually stopped after about a year. I did work on better system, but never good it up and running. And then they got taken down for soem reason or other. But they’ve been ressurected, viewing them all again it’s tempting to have another go – should be much easier/qucker now with better tools around.
Yeah, I know we have Flickr , but the rather cleaner presentation is nice. Should be easy enough to pul suitably tagged pictures out of Flickr though using their API.
Anyway here is Stringbean’s Picture of the Day
This takes you to the last one we posted, browse back from there
Posted in photos, Stringbean
