Life is a Highway - it’s the journey, not the destination

Today’s been good, not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but good. Started with a lie in again, I’m so bad at getting up. I think I’ll keep some story books near my bed and then when we’re being lazy in bed we can read something.

After breakfast we cracked on with some work, I started by reading some stories which have been lacking a bit lately. We read 2 stories from March in Enid Blyton’s Book of the Year which I love just for the old fashionedness of it. Then Marcus read the book he read the other day again to me. I figured that we could maybe do each book a couple of times so that he can get chance to be good at it iykwim. Actually he is very good at it, but it was nice to hear it with a bit more fluency today. While he was doing that Alex sat with those flip over word games we got from ELC (can’t find link), well one anyway as most of the sets had at least one missing - grrr. She guessed most of them so I don’t think it helped her struggle with the last sound, she just looked at the first sound and found the picture that went with it. Anyhoo, after that we practised some more 3 letter words and I gave Marcus some 4 letter words to practise (no pics just the words). They both did really well.

Did a page and a bit of Miquon with the cuisenaire rods and Alex decided to do a page of sums too, but I think she only did 3 out of about 5 before she got sidetracked (I left her to get on with it, she did really well all on her own!).

It was approaching lunch time then and since it was lovely and sunny we decided to go to the little park with the football and bikes. Then lunch, which the kids ate outside and I decided to declutter a bit more of the garage. Only did a bit and then turned my attention to trying to find some stuff. It’s been bugging me that 6 months down the line and things like lego were still nowhere to be found so, today I did find:

lego!!!!
reader rabbit maths game
next explode the code and Miquon workbooks
critical thinking book
loads more workbooks
loads and loads of books and magazines
scalextrix
learn the recorder book

I didn’t find:

recorders
seeds

and tbh I looked everywhere so I can’t imagine they are in there now which is annoying to say the least.

Kids played outside all afternoon while I did this with a bit of time spent playing the Arthur game again. Marcus was interested to try the reader rabbit maths game but found it too much like hard work which is him all over with Maths I reckon, it is work for him and not enjoyable work! Both kids excited at the prospect of new workbooks (strange), I think I’ll start Marcus on the ETC book 2 as really the 1st one was a bit easy for him, although it has been good practise in becoming more fluent in 3 letter words much more and with writing them. And he enjoys them so all the better. The second workbook has blends which although he can do, I think the practise will propel him that next stage forward. Alex will stay on the 1st book I think as she still struggles with those end sounds. I really need to look into buying the next set for Alex though as we only own 1 set of books 2 and 3. Shall no doubt be thinking about a Sonlight order unless anyone knows where else they can be bought?

Evening has been telly again, but I don’t mind that as it’s not on any other time and James’s dad came round so Marcus read his book again and alex showed off her reading. Also attempted to play battleships on paper with Marcus (thanks to Nic - I had no idea it could be done this way having never played any version of it) but he kept getting distracted.