just another morning here

Josiah: has done some writing and colouring on Very Hungry Caterpillar stuff, which he really loved doing. Someone somewhere (magic pencil on Words and Pictures, perhaps? Or at Start Right?) seems to have shown him how to form letters, I was watching him and he was doing them all the right way – a bit wobbly, but starting and ending in the right places. He’s also had lessons in Formula One teams/drivers from Steve, and played with lego and playmobil. He’s done plenty of reading, too, he absolutely loves the Hungry Caterpillar book, unsurprisingly – I don’t know a child that doesn’t!

Abbie: has played on neopets, been shopping with me, and, erm, done nothing that looks educational from the outside at all! Oh no, that’s not quite true – she got a Hi-5 comic from Sainsbury’s with her money. I thought it was going to be awful because it came with a CD but in fact, she and Anna sat with the CD on and went right through the comic doing all the activities – the CD basically just reads the comic and has a few sound effects on it as well. Still, it saved me having to read bits to her! It was definitely beneath them, ability wise, but they enjoyed it.

Anna: has also played on neopets. I can’t work out what the *point* of neopets is – I mean, I can waste time there myself playing games and stuff, but not quite sure if there is a bigger picture I should be grasping – Merry? It doesn’t seem to be instructional enough for the girls to get anything more than playing the games out of it – which might be a good thing if they discovered all there was to discover for themselves, but they don’t/haven’t yet – I thought they would ‘explore’ more than they have. Hmm, there’s still plenty of time, I suppose.
Anna’s also finished off a little art project she’s been working on, but can’t say too much about that on-blog She came to Sainsbury’s too. Her afternoon has been rather spoiled by somehow (during a dance practise session, apparently) falling into the corner of the coffee table, with her eye, or just to the side of it. Despite immediate ice-application she’s ended up with a big purple bruise to the side of her left eye, and has been feeling sorry for herself ever since. I have to say, I felt sorry for her too, it was nasty. She’s currently snuggled on the sofa listening to Big Toe Radio. Taking a photo of it cheered her up somewhat, she’s progressed from feeling sorry for herself to being proud of it now

Steve managed to not sell two cars today, so that wasn’t very good. I’ve bummed around – got the shopping done and planned menus for next week, and kept everyone fed and watered – picked up lots of post-easter-bad-for-you-but-couldn’t-be-refused bargains at the supermarket so it hasn’t been very healthy, and we’re about to end up by having the cooked breakfast that we didn’t get round to this morning. We have countered it by snacking on fruit as well, if that helps at all!

As I write we’re watching Two Brothers – it’s one that I have some activities on CDrom from Film Education for so we rented it because of that really. Not sure what to make of it yet but the tiger cubs are definitely very cute, and the children are enjoying it.

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