Monthly Archives: November 2006

061129 Wednesday

* let the chooks out* watched The Colony* visual memory: words using -ain and -ail* watched We Are From: Turkey (ABC, 10am)* word building: more worksheets on -ain and -ail; playing Memory with -ain and -ail picture/word cards* reading: more … Continue reading

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061124 Friday

* fed chickens and checked for eggs* writing: wrote about the visit to the Egypt exhibition yesterday; I suggested she use the technique of finding the spelling by copying from the exhibition brochure, so she did. She spelt “home” and … Continue reading

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061123 Thursday

* delivered back from farm 9:20ish* visual memory: had no difficulty with words like “regular” or “quasar” or “sonar”* writing: edited “The Knights of the Round Saucepan”; wrote me a letter complaining about how much she hates doing this* went … Continue reading

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061121 Tuesday

* fed chickens and checked for eggs* helped tidy dining room* fitted tangrams back in their frame* word-building: -ar worksheet and wordsearch* editing/proofreading letter to Nanny Frog; we read through it first to see if it said what she wanted … Continue reading

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061120 Monday

* took K out to feed the chickens, and found an egg* wrote the first draft of a letter to Nanny Frog. I explained that we were going to do a draft/edit/copy process and that perfect spelling was not the … Continue reading

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061117 Friday

* bead-looming: involves following a pattern, counting out beads of different colours etc* took Katy out to feed the chickens and check for eggs* made a sculpture in the sandpit (which was then demolished by Katy, causing a great wailing … Continue reading

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061116 Thursday

* came home from farm with chickens, put them in run, helped me put nesting material in the nesting boxes, settled them in etc* helped me mulch garden bed* visual memory: wasn’t concentrating and made a few mistakes, but recognised … Continue reading

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