Some complicated arrangements today, since Bob only had a lift home from work so we had to get him there. I seem to have suddenly been added to the local NCT email list and so found out that there was a coffee morning today which I thought might be a good chance to meet some local mums and littlies, so I took the children along to that while Bob worked from home for a couple of hours. We were the only ones there apart from the hostess, so I guess it was a good thing we’d gone, but it wasn’t quite the opportunity I’d hoped for 😆
Then we came home to collect Bob and swimming stuff, dropped Bob off at work and went on to the swimming pool, decided only the boys would swim today as the girls and I were tired and everyone a bit crabby and arrived with plenty of time in hand (for once) to find that the teacher was not there so no lesson 🙄 The children were all in the pool waiting by the time this was announced so the pool staff said they could stay and splash about for the time which should have been lesson without being charged, which meant that at least the boys got a chance to play and be in the water. K spent most of the time doing the things they normally do in class like swimming with floats; J skulked at the edge chatting to J, but did move around a little when reminded that he was in a pool 😆 and actually spent some time kicking around with his feet off the bottom 😀
Meanwhile the girls and I got to chat with Morag, who we haven’t seen for weeks, but managed to miss Gina and Susan, both of whom I had hoped to talk to about tomorrow – ah well! There’s always email 😉
Came home and decided the best place to be was bed, so we retired with a grumpy baby, a selection of books and a tin of left-over Christmas chocolates… K read me a first reader book (What a Bad Goat!) while J did a story-based Mathstart book with L (The Greatest Gymnast) and then we had a celebratory chocolate 😆 before tackling Ready Set Hop and Divide and Ride 🙂
Spent a fair while reading Write Around the World and fitting it in with what they already know eg about Chinese writing, hieroglyphics and Latin, then K decided to have a go at writing his name in different ways, J did his in gothic script and then tackled some code writing and L and I read The Three Billy Goats Gruff, whilst wrassling a grumpy baby :frog:
i like the sound of “write around the world”.