This morning we got organised a little earlier than usual, and B read to me out of one of the McGuffey readers. She chose the second one (the last time we had them out we were using the first, but she’s well past that now). It was pretty basic and she wasn’t making many mistakes, but it will give her valuable practice in frequently-used words if she wants to keep working with that as her read-aloud for a while. It occurred to me last night that I could add spelling lists to her WizardsSpell which practice word families using vowel digraphs, which is her major weakness in reading. Might work on some of those on the weekend. She also pulled out a collection of workbooks, which have been languishing in the cupboard for months, and declared her desire to start doing a cursive writing handwriting book again, but of course I couldn’t find it *rolls eyes* She was interested in the kids’ word search book that I rediscovered in there, but we didn’t have time to do much with it this morning. Before we left, she rang Pa to wish him a happy birthday, but we wasn’t answering his mobile.

We were sufficiently well organised that we even managed for both of us to have showers and wash our hair before 10am, when we had an ABA meeting to go to. B had loads of fun there and didn’t want to come home; the oldest girl there is a couple of years younger than she is so they had fun being the ringleaders, and there were more than enough babies for her to cuddle. I enjoyed it too, most of the mums who were there were playgroup regulars so we had a nice catch up after we missed it this week. Mary, another one of my online friends, who has started homeschooling her 12yo this year, was also there, with her toddler but not her older boy. I’m really feeling like I have a community of like-minded women nearby if I just reach out a bit more…

When we got home, B watched an episode of Life of Mammals while having lunch, then sat down to do some maths. She did the 2X, 3X and 10X tables practice, without much difficulty, although she is very slow. She even got through the Module 4 revision sheet (100% correct), so we’ve actually finished Module 4 on schedule *g* After that, I reminded her about the internet radio show, Classics for Kids, which we found ages ago and haven’t done much with since, and she got very enthusiastic and listened to all four episodes on Scott Joplin. She agreed that it would be good to try and listen to this on a more regular basis, and so I’m going to try to remember about it on Fridays, since a) that’s the day new episodes are uploaded and b) we don’t have much else on that day after an otherwise hectic week. She’s now watching another episode of Life of Mammals.

K was watching Play School and playing with Duplo while B did her maths, but when we had the radio show on in here she came in to listen and sat up at the table with paper and textas to draw pictures. She also helped me do a bit of tidying up in the play room while B was watching earlier. K has absolutely no interest in animal documentaries, it would seem! She is currently playing with the dog and the torch, spinning round in circles while singing, “I can spin (or run) as fast as you, spinning on the spot”. She hasn’t stopped singing all day…