Week started off pretty slow, with the kids already counting down the days to the next science lesson at Scitech. Tao drew a 9x9 chart and then added an extra row to make 90, and titled it "Christmas Island chart" as it's supposed to be to count down the days til we go to Christmas Island, or at least til Aunty Loz gets here on holiday as we're supposed to be going back with her (and I can say that now as it's no longer a surprise and the parents know we're coming). Cub of course tore it accidentally.
Maths bookwork was an epic struggle as no one felt like it. The kids didn't want to do it and I didn't feel like supervising really, which resulted in the stuffing around and procrastinating and me being short tempered and yelling at them. Ru eventually settled on her maths book (her other option was to continue Tao's old one) and really struggled through the place value problems. I'm thinking we'll have to do more work on it and giving her some room seeing as she is 6 and doing a maths book that's supposed to be aimed at 10-12yos. Tao decided on Khan Academy again and did two addition and subtraction stacks.
English wasn't a lot better, though I managed to bribe the big two with Minecraft. Cub just sprawled in front of the tv. He'd been unusually cranky for the past week which we put down to either brain development or fighting off a virus, possibly both, and then he broke out with these mysterious itchy bug bites. We suspected possible chickenpox. The bigs didn't appear to have it if it was, so I risked taking them for their science lesson at Scitech and got Josh to stay home with Cub. It did mean we had to rush back from Scitech and the kids didn't get a chance to play with the displays and their friends this time round so that Josh could get to work.
The rest of the week kind of meandered with not a lot getting consciously done (a lot got covered conversationally), Ru and Cub doing some Reading Eggs and Tao getting a lot of reading and typing practice as we conversed entirely in text in Minecraft despite sitting back to back (or more accurately he "talked" and I replied correcting his spelling and grammar til he eventually responded with a typed "grrrrrr" and then turning and grinning cutely at me).