Monday was a loss in terms of seatwork, although B did do some independent reading (Peepo) and she and E looked up min-mins in the evening. Caitlin came round after pottery and stayed til 4:30, so that took care of the whole day. They pottered about in the garden, and played Runescape on B’s computer. If B gets into this it might be a hook to get her to keep reading…

This morning, B watched BTN and Science Clips (episode 4 on Habitats) on the ABC, had a shower and washed her hair, and then we went to return most of our hideously overdue library books. Miss K was most displeased that we didn’t go into the library, so we might do that this afternoon or tomorrow. After we got home, I fed them lunch and then pinned B to the carpet and pummeled her until she agreed to do some maths (actually it was less painful than that. Slightly). We watched the decimal lesson and decided that since B had been manipulating decimals since she first got her allowance it was a bit pointless to do the workbook exercises, so we went on to estimation and multiple digit addition with carrying. B was fine at the estimation, but very careless doing the carrying on paper (she knows how it works but doesn’t see the point in writing it all out). I sent her off with Nannie with the workbook and instructions to do the second page, being more careful this time. That was about all we had time for today…

Since B left, K and I have fed the animals, played in the garden, and she has watched an episode of Play School while I blogged. I am feeling very dopey and sleepy and I’m not sure what else I will manage to accomplish with her today. Maybe some collage – we haven’t done that in ages and it’s not quite as messy as painting…

ETA: K and I did some collage (which ended up with glitter all over the floor, naturally, but at least that can be vacuumed up!) and K practiced her cutting skills on paper and on the bubbles which I started blowing at her; we read lots of books together, played silly bouncing games and cuddled a lot; and K watched a couple of Play School episodes. She fell asleep in front of the afternoon’s episode, which I forgot to record, and had an hour long nap. Apparently I don’t feed her enough, because every half an hour or so she would either pop up next to me saying, “Food? Eat?”, or just go and raid the fridge for whatever she could find. By the time dinner arrived, naturally, she wasn’t hungry. Hopefully she won’t make her Daddy get up in the middle of the night to make her toast again…