I’ll never be rich!
I’ve got lots of new goodies through the post today though! First was Our Island Story which Aprilia decided looked boring so I hammed up the first chapter shamelessly and she’s hooked (so am I!) it is a fantastic book for reading out, the story is vivid, the chapters are short and it just flows nicely.
Then I got the flash cards from Child First that I ordered last week. They really are very good. In fact she has insisted on reading the first set of 40 to me twice already and the combination of graphics, silly actions and a sentence tying the word to the graphic seems to be really floating her boat. She even had a damned good attempt at the "sentence strips" - slips of paper using the words from each set - and got through 3 or 4 of those proving to herself that she could read the words even without the graphics round them.
She’s very cuddly at the moment, I suspect that something has really upset her as she’s constantly needing hugs and telling me how I’m the best mummy ever almost as if she want’s me to be terribly sure that she does love me and that I’m not going to do anything nasty. I get the sinking feeling my parents have been guilt tripping her again…. but of course, she won’t tell me as she knows full well I will go up the wall with them!
Why have you posted this twice?
Comment by Tim — March 23, 2007 @ 2:39 pm
Good question Tim, no idea why it turned up twice but I’ve booted the “spare” off!
Comment by Administrator — March 23, 2007 @ 9:00 pm
So do I have two comment twice on this one?
Comment by Tim — March 23, 2007 @ 10:13 pm
Oh look, I just did.
Anyway, I’ve read your post now I’ve got over all that excitement.
Island Story, looks interesting. I would tend to worry though, I just read a sample chapter and it seemed to me that it was too nearly presenting conjecture (about the princes in the tower) as fact. Is that fair?
I mean, I think it can be a problem with all historical fiction, but given the audience this is aimed at….? Or is that very unfair, because otherwise it sounded like a very interesting way of getting children into history.
Off to torment the penguin now, bye.
Comment by Tim — March 23, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
Hey did you know that if you chuck Tux a fish and then click on him quickly, you can make him miss it.
Comment by Tim — March 23, 2007 @ 10:20 pm
I knew that.
Comment by michelle — March 23, 2007 @ 11:20 pm
ref Island Story, I know what you mean about it filling in gaps in the story but then I’m doing an OU course now with a lot of history in it and finding that what I was told at school as FACT was not exactly right either. I suspect at this age that just giving her a general feel for history and how things slot together is more important than total acuracy.
And both of you STOP TORMENTING MY PENGUIN you pair of shameless bullies (wink)
Comment by Administrator — March 24, 2007 @ 8:33 am
would have thought that with an awful lot of history it’s next to impossible to determine the facts.
Comment by jax — March 25, 2007 @ 9:24 pm