!schooling 0000C25c - D01n| Mar 11-15

• home education

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now]

Week started off pretty slow, with the kids already counting down the days to the next science lesson at Scitech. 8yo 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 Sprat 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). 4yo 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. 6yo eventually settled on her maths book (her other option was to continue 8yo’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. 8yo 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. 4yo 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 JJ to stay home with 4yo. 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 JJ could get to work.

The rest of the week kind of meandered with not a lot getting consciously done (a lot got covered conversationally), 6yo and 4yo doing some Reading Eggs and 8yo 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).

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