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Yesterday I did my normal trick of preparing some educational stuff around Marcus which means he can’t resist doing it

So yesterday he read all the words in JP’s word box 1. That’s just lots of simple words, probably about 15 or so. They get progressively harder andf there’s about 15 “boxes”. He read them really well actually especially since there are no pictures to make him try to cheat.

After that we sat and did a couple of pages from the Miquon Orange workbook (M did A-4 and A-7, A did A-1 and A4), they had got a bit fed up by the end although sometimes I’m not surprised! Some things are so monotonous.

Read The Story of Johnny Appleseed which provided conversations about Americans which is soemthing we’ve been doing a bit of lately. Stuck on Vivaldi as well for a bit of music appreciation and surprisingly they both loved it. Marcus hates Mozart with a vengeance but obviously not all classical music.

Went out to lakeside shopping centre to see Bob The Builder who didn’t actually surface. Grrr. Would probably complain if I could be bothered.

Today I couldn’t find the thing I wanted to print out for reading practice so I didn’t bother with anything. Must find it all out tonight. The kids chose to do some maths work with the linking cubes so we made things, did some pattern work, measured and lots more.

Excavated some of those “dig” toys where you find the dinosaur within a egg of sand. We had a dinosaur one and a egyptian one. Took bloomin ages to get into but eventually we unearthed a pterodactyl and a scarab beetle “treasure”. This led to some discussion about Egyptians and finding out why they had scarab beetles as something important so we looked in a book I had and we checked the internet.

Grumbled about them not being out in the sunshine. Honestly they would spend all day inside if I didn’t chuck em out. And even when I did that they came back in again. *rolls eyes*

Marcus has been a bit off colour lately and James thinks his glands are swollen a bit so maybe a trip to the doctors is in order for him.

in what we want to learn in the upcoming months. I’ve read about people doing this sort of this with their kids and been impressed that they had kids who had so many good ideas about what to do. Unfortunately I don’t have one of those kids

Marcus doesn’t want to learn anything. Doesn’t want to learn to read, nothing.

Although upon pressing him I think we could learn something about dinosaurs while making some dinosaur robots in a book we got from the book people. That’s somewhere to start I suppose.

Alex would like to do things to do with her dolls so I’ve suggested we try and decorate her dolls house.

OK, off to force them into doing some academics…

Plenty of socialising today although Marcus wasn’t particularly up for it for some reason. Seen lots friends this afternoon and PIL for the evening.

Watched a fab programme about dinosaurs once the inlaws dissappeared which the kids loved. Lots of boxes to tick there if I needed to, science, history, technology (I showed them how to look for pics on google of dinosaurs).

that are outside:

Denaby Ings - free
Old Moor RSPB Nature Reserve - costs but have a free ticket somewhere!
Canal at Sprotborough - free
Thrybergh Country Park - 40p parking
Walk behind school - free
Clifton Park, Rotherham - free, also has museum
Graves Park, Sheffield - free, can go before home ed group.

Need to try and be outside more. Might try and have a bag set up to just take out with us with some stuff in it so we can just get up and go.

Blanket
Drawing pads
Small knitting project
pencils
books
spotter books

of what we’ve done. Want to keep a sort of record in case the lea chases us up. You never know in case it may come in handy.

Thursday - watched Life of Mammals dvd (part of my studies) and discussed what mammals are, went to library.

Friday - construction with K’nex

Printed out some worksheets today so I had a small store of them ready to bring out as and when needed. Of course seeing them made the kids want to do them so they both did 3 sheets from the Critical Thinking Workbook. Patterns page 2 and Imagery pages 52 &53. A also wrote her name really well without too much fuss

Also went through the letters A had known and stuck into her sound book to see if she still remembered them. She did, with the exception of only a few and most of them were digraphs. But with doing the Jolly Phonics action she remembered them. Tried with M but he didn’t fancy doing it so I didn’t push it.

Well M should be going to school in September. He’s only 5 but he’d be starting Year 1 having already completed reception. He never went to reception as we decided to Home Educate when he was just 18 months old. It’s been an interesting journey and it’s weird to think that after all this time we’re only just official!

My old blog is here where there were more chatty type posts. Will no doubt get back to that but for now I’m havign a break from a public blog so will use this just to keep track of what we’re doing. Also it gives me chance to tweak this blog to how I want it and get used to using wordpress.