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Thoughts on a first week Well, i wanted to have a go at the Ambleside Curriculum and we have done a week. So far i am pleased – its not caused any friction, the kids have been happy all week with what they are doing, i suppose i mean Fran by that mostly, and i […]
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Stop Press!!!! Fran just read a book! I sat with her and she made her way through most of an Usborne Early Reader Phonics book – some words she knew, some were quite new (like nest, hatch etc) some she hadn’t encountered for a while and remembered and some she sounded out and picked up […]
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Well thank goodness that’s over I hate the disappointment of footbal teams going out of competitions. I don’t like football and i don’t like how much people care about it! It upsets me! *has paddy* On another note, i emailed yahoo over my problems with getting to my group page. Their response? “we recommend that […]
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Keeping going. It was all slightly harder work today but i think that was more my fault than anything as i was feeling a bit tired and overwhelmed by mess. I seem to function better if the house is tidy. Anyway, i appreciate that “what worksheets i forced my child to do today” doesn’t make […]
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Ammi’s longest ever sentence “mummy, milk bottle this way please!!!” Last night Max remarked that Ammi has to be a good year ahead of where Moo was in terms of speech – actually its probably more like 18 months ahead but its so great for us to be really able to talk dispassionately about Moo […]
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I’m reading… George and Sam by Charlotte Moore. This is pretty fascinating on rather a lot of levels for me; first its a description of two very different autistic children, brothers, being narrated by someone who can view them from a level perspective. And secondly because they are the nephews of Fran’s godfather and reading […]
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Completely different day! Lol… well today was a definite change from the last few! Started off with our MP local group which i took a load of fairly simple crafty stuff to. But it all seemed to go down fairly well and then quite a lot of them came back to ours – and stayed […]
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Blogging at 4 again! Scary! (As Ammi would say!)Well, i mused today, as i cleaned the kitchen and reorganised it so all the sarnie making stuff was in one place, effectively using up a “clutter hotspot” more effectively, that the last 10 days or so i have almost adopted a “structured HE approach”- which effectively […]
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Thinking i might sub our “Flower Fairies Poems” for the treasury ones, since they don’t really inspire me. It would cover a bit of nature study too. I love the Flower poems and we have several collections. I’ve got a selection of creation stories to print out too which i want to use alongside the […]
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Blogging now ready for another busy evening. I was quite curious to know what Fran and Moo would make of today after last week and a weekend of not being so “strict mummy-ish” – anyway, by 9am when i was up and about, the girls had turned off the telly and were playing a game […]
