Yesterday Mum took B and K to the zoo, then dropped off both girls in the afternoon. I put K down for a nap as she was exhausted, so B and I spent some time together with the book of … Continue reading
Today K was inspired by Play School to want to be a doctor, so we knocked up a doctor’s costume for her. It was less aesthetically pleasing than the pirate’s costume I created for her the other day, but she … Continue reading
Yesterday was a very busy day for E and the girls. They went out in the morning to get E’s comics, and dropped in on a local school fete for fairy floss, patting zoo and rides. Then they came back, … Continue reading
Oh joy. I had just finished adding a new spelling list and setting up all our web-based programs, and was about to get B to sit down after she’d finished her breakfast…and the connection from the router to the internet … Continue reading
B was out at the farm today, but K and I have kept ourselves tolerably well amused. After spending an hour in the garden this morning in a pooey nappy but refusing to come inside so I could change her, … Continue reading
Today has been somewhat more productive! In brief: Club Penguin BTN mockumentary on the Yellowstone supervolcano Most of the first Physical Sciences episode looked at various metric measurements, esp micrograms which was unfamiliar to her – looked at it in … Continue reading
[This was written offline on Monday afternoon] With all the internet outages we’ve been having lately, a slight flaw in our educational program has been revealed. Without Teh Intarwebs, we have nothing to do… I was in the process of … Continue reading
We haven’t done much in the way of organised “school” this week, but today I pulled my act together a bit. B and I looked at the Playschool program notes for this week and she decided what she wanted to … Continue reading
This morning I actually got around to talking to B about my idea for getting her to do some of the “extension” activities with K after Play School. She was quite enthusiastic about the idea, and I headed off to … Continue reading
Yesterday we didn’t do much. B decided not to go to pottery in favour of coming with us to playgroup. Given that the next playgroup isn’t til October 22nd it’s doubtful that we’ll get back there before the baby arrives, … Continue reading