* optometrists appointment 10:30-11:00. Optometrist said her focus was fine, bar a little residual tightness, and she should not need to continue wearing glasses (just as well!). She also showed her how to measure out safe reading distance – for a book, the distance from your elbow to your knuckles tucked under the chin; for computer, the end of your arm.
* saw a parking inspector giving a ticket to the car next to us, talked about why and how parking inspectors work
* showed B the Reserve Bank Building and explained a little bit about who they are/what they do
* talked about nutrition: where do we find protein? and how the divided plates make it easy to serve out the right proportion of foods and make sure all food groups are covered, eg. 2x vegetables, 1x fruit, 2x grain, 1x protein
* played in garden with Katy
* played dress-ups on ‘puter while I put Katy down for nap
* “weightlifting” – is now very fast doing the three letter words, and improving a lot on the four-letter words. Five letter words she still needs to explicitly break them down into phonemes/phonograms, but that seems to be working better as well. She is very quick on phonograms she has mastered, eg. “-ing”. After correctly reproducing “thing” she went on to write down eight more “-ing” words on the whiteboard, then read over the list and used them (verbally) in a story.
* cursive handwriting practice – her full name
* independent reading: the first paragraph of Laura’s Pa. She only had difficulty with 5 words out of 58 on the second read-through!
* reading aloud Laura’s Pa, while she did more Christmas crafty stuff
* played in garden with Katy; tried our home-grown lettuce for the first time (yum – will be a bit of a challenge to stop Katy defoliating it now!)
* Katy and I pootled around in the garden, mostly playing in the sandpit (including building and decorating a sand castle, which was a lot of fun) while Beth watched Rollercoaster etc
* tutoring session with Dennis at 6pm
* staying the night at Dennis and Margaret’s