Seeing as it’s been a while… I’ve been cycling through periods of being more or less engaged and organised. I was very organised around the beginning of Autumn, where I got back into the seasonal units, K started a unit … Continue reading
I’ve instituted Themed Thursdays as part of the “organise stuff to do so we don’t go crazy stuck inside over winter” push I’ve been on lately. The idea is, basically, to pick a topic and pull out books, toys and … Continue reading
Got out the door by about 10:30am for HIP, which wasn’t bad. Still arrived later than we might have done, because H was so irredeemably aggravating that I kept having to pull the car to the side of the road … Continue reading
Monday Playdough, Marbletick (H) Watching Bananas DVD, then K wanted to find Trapdoor videos on YouTube (used wordbank to find the spelling) Building a cubby under K’s bunk; playing house Feltboards Playing in the garden intermittently (it’s raining/snowing and freezing … Continue reading
Well, that didn’t work. We got to HIP okay, but nobody had had much breakfast (because I was too busy doing the menu plan/shopping list and procrastinating on the puter) and were starting the get a bit fragile at Isabel’s. … Continue reading
I sent the kids into the library with B to supervise and ducked in to the post office to pick up our parcels and post Mum’s letter. At the library, B read books to H and I read books to … Continue reading
Today was a much calmer, nicer day. The smalls played with modelling clay (K) and playdoh (H) in the morning, and B pooted. I grudgingly got my act together and did menu plan and shopping list and got us ready … Continue reading
K played with the modelling clay, and made a model house based on Mary Poppins. H played with the playdoh because I flatly refuse to let him have the modelling clay after last time. B was on her puter, and … Continue reading
I kicked B off her puter to play with the smalls while I had my shower, and when I got out they were happily engaged in building a cubby in the back garden. I figured that a picnic might entice … Continue reading
Ergh. Did stuff. Last week. Lots of stuff. Surely? I wish I could remember any of it… Sunday. We had another huge crafty morning – the puppet craze is still going strong. K made heaps of sparkle fairy stick puppets, … Continue reading