5 minute challenge!

Very quick rundown – two days to cover and 5 minutes to do it!

Wednesday was not a Latinetc day but Gina and co came over and we made it a Geography day instead, with some map work, giving and understanding directions and a little bit of treasure hiding 😉 We all played frisbee and various other games in the field, then J, J and M did maths while K, L and E made some plasticine figures for a French game we didn’t quite have time to play.
Cello was cancelled at short notice (unexpected hospital appointment for teacher) so Gina supervised a brief session for K and E here, then we all went to Baby Music, where K bewailed the fact that he is too big to join in but got on with some work instead once he had been reminded that 7 really is too big to count as a baby 😆 He and M did some spelling worksheets from a book Gina has lent me and then a page of Draw Write Now, while J and J decided Latin was to happen after all and got cracking on some Galore Park – I guess that means it’s time to step the Latin up a notch, at least for that group 😉
Afterwards we went to the park, where the children had a great time racing around on the bike roundabout thing and E learned to do somersaults round the bar again (she used to be able to, then her proportions changed) – and then let go too soon and gave herself a spectacular nosebleed 🙁
We came back and did piano, recorders and tea, in varying proportions, then all trooped off to Cubs to watch M’s induction 🙂 He has to be a full Cub to do the Challenge Day he and J are desperate to do, so Arkaela very kindly leapfrogged him up; he’s already working on his first badge so should be able to return to France with a souvenir uniform The Cubs session was karate, which they both enjoyed very much, apparently. K keeps reminding me that karate is one of the things I promised to look into when we only have three children to worry about…
Today was Tots and Nots, with an early start planned so that Gina could do a decent piano lesson for M. Traffic intervened somewhat 🙁 but we still fitted in 30 mins of lesson – it just meant the others were whizzed through a bit afterwards. J and J did French while M was busy 😉 then I did some poetry work with all the Nots there by then (J, J, M, SB, K, E and L) based on last week’s poem, but this time collecting sound words to do with snow and then using a framework to create a poem. J and J each did their own, while SB, E, K and L decided to work together but then got disheartened (it was a year 5 piece of work!) so I helped them to pull all their ideas and M’s (lots of lovely French sound words!) together into one poem (will try to type it up tomorrow so Gina and Beans can see it too as I currently have only copy) and then we read it out together to check it worked. Next week I think we may try getting them to perform the poems in the same way as they did the Weather poem last week.
By the time snack was done it was time for Gina to head off with the 3 older boys to Multisports, while I did songtime and then said goodbye to the Tots and sat E, SB, K and L down for some French. A was happy playing with a late-staying Tots mum (this is the second week they have stayed very late, but no problem because they get ready to leave then just stay and play quietly until we need to go – A likes both mum and daughter so it works really well 😀 ) and BB was making strange noises under the table so may have absorbed some French – who knows! A quick scoot round and tidy-up and we too headed off to Multisport, E, K and L plotting on the way about going to Gina’s afterwards… When we got there it was clear that M in particular was having a fantastic time, so we stayed for the second hour, K watching avidly through the window in the door, but adamant that he was happy just watching. Lunch happened somewhere in there…
We did indeed go to Gina’s afterwards, and much recordering happened, including M having his first lesson (he now has a recorder borrowed from Gina and has already spent a fair amount of time working his way through the book on his own – this will be an incredibly musical exchange experience for him, I think!) with children dropping out as their limit of expertise was reached and coming through to do English and Maths with me, thus ticking lots of boxes 😉 Then we threw them all outside for a few minutes before letting them loose on the Wii to make a Mini-M 😀
Home rather late, frozen pizza in oven (bad mother!) accompanied by nuked veg (really bad mother!) and then Ikea Daim tart (how bad can you get?) – quick violin/cello while it all cooked and then off to bed without passing Go…

Okay – so I can’t do 5 min posts!