* 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 it to say. We looked for places where the flow of the text suggested the need for full stops/commas, and added them as appropriate, also checking for correct use of capital letters. We looked at the spelling, and where the word was phonetic I helped her sound it out and check for missing phoneme/letter correspondences, and encouraged her to exaggerate the sounds in her mouth so she could feel what sounds she was making (eg. the minimalist ‘n’ in -nk). After we’d gone through and edited the original draft, she asked me to write out a clean copy so she wouldn’t get confused when she copied it out to send to MG.
* watched BTN and Our History
* visual memory: she is beginning to remember some of the words straight off, without sounding out
* reading aloud: 14 pp. The Cat in the Hat, then read a couple of boardbooks to Katy
* played house with K while I made a lunch platter, now they are eating in the play-house corner using an upturned laundry basket as a table *g*
* playing with magnetic letters with Katy – she was using a baking tray to write out her and Katy’s names, etc
* sorted through a box of bits and bobs I bought from Vinnies a while back to find the pieces she wanted to make cards
* wrote an entire page of a story about the Knights of the Round Saucepan. I think she is channelling the Goon Show…
* made a card, helped Katy make one too
* swimming with Nannie, meeting Caitlin (from HENCAST) and her mum and sister at the pool – Caitlin is possibly coming over for a quick visit afterwards, time permitting
* Caitlin couldn’t make it but they will be seeing each other on Thursday at the ANG (neither of us booked into the tour to see the Egyptian antiquities, but we will probably meet up for the picnic with the other HENCASTers then wander round the exhibit by ourselves
* observed that the spider seems to be moistening the bottom of her eggsac (something which I have read about, apparently it helps the spiderlings to escape)
Katy: played house with her new cooker in her re-jigged play house area; watched Playschool; came outside with me while I hung out the washing, and tried to hang out a load on her little clothesline (I helped do most of the pegging but by the end she had gotten the hang of squeezing, just wasn’t quite co-ordinating the peg with the line); more independent playing; playing house and with the magnetic letters with B; playing in various kitchen cupboards and drawers; playing with the foam shapes from the box o’ bits ‘n’ bobs; splashing in the sink; playing the saucepan orchestra; made a card (well, chose and arranged bits, we did the gluing); napped; watching second Playschool episode
The Knights of the Round Saucepan
In a led far far away…
No no no it is far far far away
OK in a led f far away that…
No no it is far far far far away
OK in a led far far far far away…
No no no it is…
You now it is no no no no
Humph
Thank you. In a led far far away that is far far fom yor has or ene uthar bod’s has the knits of the rad sos pen. Naw the knits of the rad sospen ur not vere smut.
Oy wy hod tat