Our evening read-alouds: The Little White Horse Cat’s Magic Little House in the Big Woods Little House on the Prairie Just-So Stories
I need to make an appointment with myself to work on K’s portfolio (I don’t intend to register, but I am planning to keep an ongoing portfolio anyway so that if I ever get involved with the department or there’s … Continue reading
Friday K played an imaginative game where she was acting out the Moon Maiden from The Little White Horse. Decided she wanted to draw a map of the world but didn’t know where to start, so I suggested she ask … Continue reading
I got up and shaped the bread dough in the bread machine and put it on for second rise in the cupboard with the water heater. I started breakfast for the kids – H was being his usual pain in … Continue reading
gave their mummy and daddy a sleep-in by playing very nicely in their bedroom for hours. Lasted until they came to blows over which colour toothbrush they wanted, since K had changed her mind and now declared that blue is … Continue reading
This morning K has spread the scrap cards all over the floor in the dining room, altho she was allegedly doing some cutting. It’s a lovely day, so mostly they have been outside, with the stated aim of making a … Continue reading
we talked about making fairy houses and looked at some pictures played together in their bedroom I played Tummy Ache with both kids – H is beginning to grasp the rules but still has problems with turn-taking played together in … Continue reading
Today Katy started off wanting to do her phonics book, and did about ten pages of that. Hugh wanted to be doing something with us too, so I set him up with playdough. After a while, Katy decided she wanted … Continue reading
We watched a couple of videos the last two days which I should probably record somewhere. Yesterday we watched the first edition of Supermarket Secrets, a British program all about the nastiness which is industrial food and farming. Depressing but … Continue reading
Unedited (and presumably incomplete), as she wrote it: We set of to melbourne in high spirit at about 6:30am. We stoped at the Dog On A Tuker Box (Never realy got why it was so inportent) Then we stoped at … Continue reading