In At The Deep End

Wednesday was Latinetc, but with a slight departure from the norm (and no Latin!) – I’m going to be very lazy and just link to Helen’s blog

During the picnic I dashed off with K to cello and A to Baby Music, then we came back to the tail end of the picnic, blew more bubbles and took pictures just to show we had been there and came back for a quick tea before Cubs. Despite his and our best intentions J had not learned to ride a bike in the week since he discovered the next badge was to be Safer Cycling, so he did the session on his scooter while M rode his bike. In fact, if J manages to finish the homework for the badge and make a poster then he may be in the slightly odd position of earning a Safer Cycling badge before he can actually ride a bike

Today was Tots, with a nice turnout of friendly He-ers and a couple of HE-interested young families so a good mix Gina had brought a poem full of onomatopoeia and sound words for the older children to read and perform so we divided them into groups (J, J and M together, then SB, K, E and L) and they worked out how to produce poem and sound effects and then performed it for the Tots after song-time. Piano happened too (although M was very nervous so Gina decided not to do a lesson but just a supervised practice and has given me a list of useful words and phrases for him to learn before next time) and lots of recordering M by himself, then M and L and then M and K did lots of KS1 English and then J, J and M got stuck into some Maths while E, L and K did French with me. Sadly SB had left by then – I will try to fit French in while she’s there next time, if at all possible M played (and earwigged) while J and J did French, then we pootled for a bit, tidied up and came home rather later than planned, with Big Alice in tow. Hot chocolate and yummy orange cake (made by Alice) revived everyone enough for violin/cello practice while I made lasagne, then J and L threw together a quick (packet mix) cake to make the most of a hot oven – icing to be added tomorrow to make Devil’s Food cake, hopefully.

Some fun video clips and games and the children are now all off to bed, except A who is sneaking a feed after I should have left to sort Tots toys…

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