This morning B ripped through a new spelling list in about five nanoseconds while I was in the shower, then got most of them right on the spelling test after only one practice. Possibly I need to recalibrate? *g* It’s amazing what a boost this is giving to her confidence!
After that we did a subtraction worksheet I had printed out, and (after I’d had a brainfart and explained it wrong then had to retract), she practised subtraction with borrowing for a while. After two thirds of the page she got bored, found the calculator (which K had mysteriously transported to the dining room) and marked her work. The fact that she was doing that herself apparently precluded tantrums when she discovered how many she’d done wrong. I think we will spend a while longer on subtraction…
She spent quite a while on Rune Scape, including navigating her own way to the page about becoming a paid member and reading large swathes of it to herself *blink* K watched a couple of Play School episodes over the course of the morning, and when one show finished the program showing on TV was talking about skeletons, which seized her imagination greatly. I pulled out a book on skeletons (which was B’s favourite book for years), and we looked through that together, then read some more books.
I had brought out a jar of big wooden beads for K as a distraction when she wanted to join B in her worksheet, and after lunch she and B spent ages playing with them together. I did some tidying in the junk room and found quite a lot of extra beads, which I added to what K has taken to calling her “treasure box”. They ended up all over the floor of course, but amazingly nobody complained about being asked to pick them up again, so I didn’t have to put my Grumpy Mummy hat back on!
K and B played in the garden for ages while I listed some more books on eBay and did some washing up, until K was getting so grumpy that I suggested a nap. B watched some TV, then the two of us went outside and did some gardening, including measuring up for the new chook run so we know how much wire and star pickets we will need. I started out with some weeding until B declared she couldn’t clean out the chookshed because of the smell, so I did that while she weeded a patch for me to mulch with the mucky straw from the chooks. By which time K had woken up again, and grumped sufficiently to require my attention inside. B let the chooks out, then came back inside in time for RollerCoaster.