The day started pretty slowly, with the kids insisting on watching various shows and Mr Bat doing his own thing for a while, but eventually they got out the door for their Sunday Funday at the park. Meanwhile, I kept working on the learning centre idea. I googled around for inspiration and took notes when I saw something which I thought sounded like it was at the right level for K. So as well as the stuff from the book I already had, I’ve also used clip-art to make up some sheets to practise counting by twos, fives, tens etc, and started a butterfly symmetry matching game. When the kids were finally out of the house, I put the stuff in the top of the craft cupboard (which we never use) into the shed, moved the stuff we use but which I want to keep out of their reach to the top shelf, and now I have one shelf for collage and drawing supplies, one shelf for maths, and one shelf for English. Still need a few more tubs or magazine holders to keep things organised, but most of the stuff that was scattered about the place is now all in one spot, at least. We’ll see if this satisfies K’s expressed desire for “more work”. Of course, I will also have to come up with some ideas for things which H can do, so that when K wants to do seatwork, I can keep him occupied and out of her hair. Preferably stuff which she won’t decide look more interesting than what she originally chose so that then they start fighting over it, lol. I made a matching game with the same butterflies I used for the symmetry game, and both H and K loved it. Now the printer has run out of ink, though, so I can’t do any more.

I signed K up for the five-day free trial of BrainPop Jnr and she played around with that for a while this evening. I noticed she was also playing on Starfall for the first time in ages. Might be time to revisit Reading Eggs?

And the library website tells me that we will have a ridiculous number of holds to pick up this week, so we’d better get on and finish reading all the stuff we’ve had out for a while…