Tuesday morning was spent playing catch-up after a long day out on Monday. J and M did lots of long multiplication 🙂
The afternoon passed by in a haze of violin lessons and gymnastics, with many complimentary remarks from Christina about the improvement they have all made over the last two weeks 😀 It’s always nice when you can see the results of hard work and practice 😉 She’s also started talking about a tiny violin and 2 minute lessons for A, who loves to watch the others having their lessons. I think we’ll see whether Father Christmas has access to anything suitable…
Wednesday was a Latinetc day at last 😀 so the children and I had a speedy tidy-up , floor sweep etc session first thing – we’ve been far too busy to keep on top of things recently – and then laminated some playdough mats from sparklebox to go with the large quantities of smelly playdough we made the other week. Helen did some experiments with both older and younger groups, working out what different substances were by seeing which properties they had. I did Latin with two different groups and then acted as Helen’s lab assistant instead of teaching French because Merry was doing such fab fimo-ing that my students were all busy 🙂 It was really nice to see what they were up to 😉 Michelle cooked vast quantities of pasta for lunch and Gina grabbed any spare children to do practical music theory work which sounded like great fun from where I was. All good stuff then 😀
Cello and Baby Music after that, then back for tea and J and M had Cubs, which was a session on making smoothies and mocktails. They came back full of interesting mixtures of juice and yoghurt and with a packet of sweets their group had won for inventing the best smoothie 🙂
Today was Tots and Nots, which started early so M could get a good piano lesson in and finished late because there was no sport to dash off to this week. Alongside the usual Tots stuff (and lots of playdoughing using the new mats) we also did piano, recorders, French, maths (long division this time) and some parachute games with the enormous CHEF parachute we didn’t know was going to be coming our way until it arrived unexpectedly 🙂 S very nearly fell asleep on me while Gina was doing recorders, revived to eat lunch, but was then happy to come with us when Gina popped off to teach another pupil. He fell asleep in the car while we did Freecycle errands, stopped briefly at a playground and then drove to Gina’s, where he continued to sleep while we did the Geography/poetry things we hadn’t done at Tots because parachute games happened instead. Lots of reading, writing and acting happened, followed by lots of playing and a very little bit of wii-ing and before we knew it it was time to head home again for tea and bed. New sheets for M again (not much of a problem as he changes them himself and washing them is easy; it’s only drying that’s ever a pain). I think I’m seeing the pattern though – it’s always either Tues after a busy gymnastics session, lots of water to top up, late tea and bed or Wed after Cubs, second tea and late night. This week it was both. Now I’ve seen the connection I just need to think of a solution…
Tomorrow is an enforced (and much needed!) day at home as the car is in for its MOT (fingers crossed please!) – a good chance for some R and R before a stupidly busy weekend :frog:
aargh. chris told me it was a not recorders/french tots – i am trying to coax regular attendance!!
We have quite a lot of extra sheets, if you need to borrow some for the duration. It might make drying time less urgent, assuming you have a place for the washed ones to hang until done.