Batpotch
Home Ed with only one child has advantages and disadvantages, I’m finding – no surprises there I suppose! Very different to how things used to be before, anyway. It’s much easier to feel happy that the basics are covered for the day, but then harder to fill the rest of the time … and so many games aren’t really meaningful with only two people … ah well. From next week onwards we will have Joe’s 18mo cousin Robyn with us for 3 days each week so that will spice things up a little 
Joe started the morning with some maths sticker book (multiplication and division in the 2,3,4,5 and 10 times table), violin practice, and then we carried on with our Hotchpotch thing – it ended up being a Superhero Hotchpotch character named Batpotch (photo to follow, can’t find camera), with different special powers taken from all the different superheros Joe could think of. He drew the character and wrote a sentence, then dictated a few more sentences to me – I still can’t stand making a child write when they really aren’t ready to, and when the mechanics of writing actually detract from the enjoyment they have in making up stories or describing things.
Gave in to a bit of tv before lunch, then after lunch we walked down to the library at the bottom of the close – planning to make that a weekly thing, and hoping that the librarian will start being nicer to us if we go in regularly! Joe sat in there reading quietly for half an hour, so I did as well 
Then when we got home we played Mindbender (Woollies’ version of Mastermind), Jenga, Set, and by the time the girls came home I was knackered! They’re now playing playmobil and having a variety of music lessons between the three of them.
Note to self: remember to look at school dinner menu before planning dinner at home, my poor girls are going to have had gammon twice today, oops! Nigella’s gammon in coke seems to have worked fine in the slow cooker though – will update after tea with my verdict although I’m sure it will be yummy
November 1st, 2006 at 17:12
Sounds pretty knackering, I’m sure I’d be a much better and much worse Home Educator with only one child!
Glad the ham seems to have worked and agree it will probably be yummy
November 1st, 2006 at 18:29
Hey Sarah – guess what. Not only is flikr unobtainable from school, I can’t access my blog site from the airport internet as it has high porn content (apparently). In fact, I can’t get onto anything to do with blogspot. Bum eh?
November 1st, 2006 at 18:43
PS. REALLY bored now but have you ever checked out http://www.tworedboots.co.uk? And, yes, you too can make your own paper doll
November 1st, 2006 at 20:18
Erm, yes Ruth, it’s my website, doh! I just never did anything more with it … one day I might …
November 2nd, 2006 at 9:30
I remember having the same issues with only Tom at home – within 2 months the other two had joined him and it was easier straight away. Feeling a bit the same now with Lyddie being so much younger than the others. Hoping No.5′s arrival will improve things again – eventually!
LOL @ having your own site recommended to you! That’s a very high accolade, no?
November 2nd, 2006 at 9:45
I do wonder how long the girls will last – but for now at least they are still very happy where they are – time will tell, I suppose. Anna has always said she only wants to do primary anyway although I think she may waver when her friends go to high school. Ah well, we’ll cross all those bridges when we come to them!
November 2nd, 2006 at 18:54
I’m sure it will all work out OK, whatever happens. It’s great that your children know they have a choice. School often works out really well for them on that basis, doesn’t it?