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BBC - Skillswise

BBC - Skillswise - Homepage - Ace site! Ignore the fact it says it's for adults, it's perfect for kids too (about Yr3 upwards I'd say) - BRILL!
Posted by Caroline at Thursday, July 27, 2006 1 comments 
School in Pictures,
because it's too hot to type much and I'm grumpy with the heat!
But I will say - Joel got 90% in his end of 'Grammar Skills' test today - I'm very pleased with him of course. It means he has remembered the majority of the year's work :-)
Abbie finished Earlybird Singapore today too - ready for 1A next year...not sure really...might have to do a bit more Miquon first, or I can see too much shouting on my part close up ahead!
Completed our plants project - YEAH!! At Last!! Now to assemble it all somehow...hmmm...that's a challenge!
Tommorrow - Weather to finish, plus last two pages of 'Write about my World', transitional 'Stile' books (one page of each book) and the last little bit of PM 2B, book 1. I Might let Boo go play with Phoebe (keep them out of my hair!), she's pretty much done really and even her handwriting is at a suitable stopping point for the year. Maybe just a little bit of maths spread about through the day - just to finish off the addition and subtraction section of Miquon red. That would take us up to multiplication, which would be a good 'revision' place to start back next term.
Turns out Jake has school on Thursday as well - poor little guy!

Phoebe beautiful colouring of Eddy's fish.
She really takes pride in her colouring and thinks about the colours. Notice the splashes of green on the side of the bowl - that's the algae that she always sees on the side of our tank! Two strawberry cakes, one chocolate and one "rasperry,dark chocolate,strawberry, milk chocolate, orange and ribena" cake (notice the colours of the stripes on that last cake!) Ellie hard at work with alphabet matching today
(this set was mine as a child!!) All the 'school kids' hard at work.

Boo is playing on 'Arthurs reading games' and doing very well :) Ellie still working on that puzzle... Just look at the look on her face - such pride! :-) As if that weren't enough of a challenge - on to the puzzles... More gorgeous looks of achievement when she completed an eight piece puzzle all by herself :) Posted by Caroline at Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5 comments 
Another Good One!

Posted by Caroline at Monday, July 24, 2006 2 comments 
Simply Lovely Day. Was a very lop-sided day! After a busy morning we had a very quiet afternoon.

Paul was out for the whole day at a Trustees meeting for a local charity he is part of (CCC) and Jacob went off with friends to a birthday party - to watch “Pirates of the Caribbean” at the cinema and go to Pizza Hut. This left me with 5 others to troop the 35 minute walk up to ballet, so the girls could be part of a mini-show for us parents :) I did it more for their sake than mine in reality, as I’ve seen the dances a hundred times in recent weeks, what with exams and all! But it was nice to see how well Phoebe is doing too - it looks like she has some good potential, more than I thought Boo had at first.

Then of course we had to come back again! But not before a trip to the play-park across the road.

Then the afternoon was kind of empty! Phoebe asked me to read to her, which I dutifully did, but found myself slurring my words and nodding off. When the children all started bickering I decided they were hot and tired, so we all had a fairly lengthy nap (perhaps more for my benefit that theirs, but hey!) Anyway, I’m sure it did us all good. I’m not sure if Joel napped - I think probably not - I think he played with his magnetix, but that’s OK.

Jake stayed out for tea, at another friend’s house (good that he is so popular!), but came home just as we were going to eat - it ended up being a bit of a late tea in the end. That said the kids were still all in bed by 8.30pm - giving me lots of time to do the church newssheet, sort out my blog (which had gone really funny in IE due to me tweeking it in FF!), read around and play a bit (see last night’s entries!) and not go to bed until 4am!! (ooops - promised P. I’d go to bed with him last night and said  I wouldn’t be long when he went at 12.30am!!)

On the blog note. I can’t get my blog to consistently look right in FF, so if you are having problems viewing it in FF, I’ve found a little add-on which will allow you to view it in IE - in FF (if you get my drift?). In FF it looks VERY plain with no graphic at all - at least it does on my PC, but in IE it’s rather classy (I think!). SO - add the IE Tab from Moailla add-ons if you like to read things that look nice - it also helps if the fonts are a bit small/large, which I have found them to be at times.

That’s it - off to church now.
Posted by Caroline at Sunday, July 23, 2006 0 comments Who Do I Look Like?

Love this - and if it's true I'm in heaven!!

66% Charlize Theron
66% Shania Twain
63% Mischa barton (with two different pictures)
63% Kim Bassinger
61% catherine Zeta Jones!!!

and with a different Photo I got 67% Isabella Rosillini (which I think is the best likeness) and 55% Jamie Lynn Spears - who looks somewhat how I did in years gone by!
 This is Funny!..

...And not that inaccurate either!!

Posted by Caroline at Sunday, July 23, 2006 1 comments Ballet Girls My girls had the chance to do a little show for us today at Ballet. And here they are, with their class, looking gorgeous! (Actually they didn't look as neat as usual because the morning was a mad rush)
The little girl label 'R' is Abbie's best friend :) 
Just For Fun!

How grammatically correct are you? (Revised with answer key) You are a GRAMMAR GOD! Make A Quiz More Quizzes Grab Code
Posted by Caroline at Thursday, July 20, 2006 3 comments Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Just Too hot and Too Busy!

It’s simply too hot to work, but we’ve too much to finish up to not work – which is what I’d really like to do. I think if Jake were not at school right now I’d be taking a mini-break and finishing up when the weather cools a little. But the summer is looking pretty busy so I can’t see us doing anything schooly much – other than that which just happens – over the break.

So today we did maths and English (the normals). I’ve realised that although Boo’s reading is really beginning to take off, her spelling of the words she can read is not keeping up. So I guess next year I shall really have to start targeting her spellings a little more. We’ve really not concentrated much on that this year and I can’t remember it really being an issue with the boys – it seemed to just happen naturally with reading for them. Abbie is different though; she is not a visual learner, so I think photographing words in her mind is not going to do it for her. I’m going to have to find an alternative path … summer homework for me then!!

Joel is whizzing through money maths – he completely get the decimal point thing and is having no trouble with it – plus for some reason the very fact that it’s money, not just random numbers, motivates him no end. I can’t see us actually finishing 2B in reality, although we have already done the fractions bit, but it might mean we start next year lightly with the fun bit of 2B – time, measurement, etc… which in some ways would be a nice ease into Yr3.

Did another little bit of ‘plants’ today – might just get that done in time ready for sticking over the hol’s. Sadly though our beans don’t seem to be doing anything (the seeds were a year old though), so it’s a bit more ‘theoretical’ than I had hoped. At least we can look at last years pics for reference though and say that we DID do it hands on first :-)

I’m going to blog some pics of what we’ve been up to, as the study is the hottest room in our house and I’m cooking here, so I want to finish up quickly. The pictures say it all really.

"I Can Do Anything" poems
(finished off yesterday).

This one is Joel's. This one is Abbie's Today's Hydrometer reading
Dry bulb reading 50C, 'dew point' reading 29C = 30% relative humidity (that' pretty dry) and I really had to struggle to find a table that had calculations up to 50C! And we've done these too (thanks Merry).
This sparkly dog is Phoebe's work (note the multi-coloured spots!) And this one is Joel's - made for his best mate (bless)! Posted by Caroline at Wednesday, July 19, 2006 0 comments Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Post Script...

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Writing “I am from…” has been very therapeutic, but I keep thinking of more ‘stuff’; more places I am from. There is SO much I could add still – and I might for my own purposes, but my blog stays as is. It’s fascinating what shapes us and what the pivotal points in our lives are. I’m sure we don’t realise their significance at the time – although I know I did deliberately choose some of these events as such. I think when I read mine it is pretty negative and doesn’t include much recent past (like the last 11 years), but in a sense that is not really where I am from, so much as where I AM right now! I know it’s turned out to be quite an epistle as it is, hence me leaving it alone now, but I’d like it to have included other events – birth of my first born and the impact of him on my life, being stranded on a mountain top in a hale storm at age 16 – alone! – homeschooling… there is so much, but I hope you enjoy what there is. I need to edit it – I’ve spotted a few typos, but it is readable and I have jobs to do, so I’ll try to get to it later :-)

Posted by Caroline at Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1 comments I am from ... (thanks for this Jax)

I am from galaxy chocolate and strawberry smoothies!

I am from superlification! 
Through the Looking Glass! Posted by Caroline at Monday, July 17, 2006 0 comments Just because he's gorgeous!! Making Rainbows :)

Joel did this on Thursday, but I thought you'd like the pictures :) Posted by Caroline at Monday, July 17, 2006 1 comments Don't know if you can see this, but it was reading 50 C ! A few minutes earlier it had reached 52! 
Me on a Summer Sunday

I sometimes sing in the band on a Sunday too :) Posted by Caroline at Sunday, July 16, 2006 5 comments Home-Ed BlogRing TOTS 100 UK HE Bloggers & Friends Overseas HE Friends & Blogs Subscribe to FROGACADEMY

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