today was better
She spent a lot of the morning watching class TV whilst making a paper model farm from a book I bought years ago with the intention of using the farm for the Montessori Language activities. We are about half way through making the farm up, it’s really detailed and quite fiddly but hoping it will be worth it. i’m hoping to trail her off to our local "working farm" (surely they all work??) place some time soon to see the lambs etc.
We also played "adding facts snap" - basically I printed off the addition fact flash cards from the Jan Brett website and we use them as snap or Go Fish or Pairs cards - you can match any 2 sums with the same answer. I know we never got "drilled" on addition facts although we did recite times tables ad nauseum so you could argue that it’s something she will pick up gradually with practice but why practice boring sums over and over when you can play snap with them 
Also we tried to wash the car. Not entirely successful here as once it dried you could still see oil speckling all over it but I shifted 1 layer and aparently T-cut and a good quality polish afterwards will cure the rest. So guess what I need to buy tomorrow…
And finally….
Aprilia got awarded a certificate with much fuss tonight at Red Cross. It’s for "CPR Awareness" and it was pointed out that it was because she has shown that she does actually know what to do and given a bit more time to grow and get stronger she’ll do it no problem. To say she was chuffed was an understatement.
I have never seen that Jan brett website. Honestly, I think I’ve had my eyes closed for ages!!!
Well done Aprilia!
Comment by Kirsty — March 26, 2007 @ 10:00 pm
Having been to a few ‘working farms’, a while after moving here we walked past one on the edge of the village. Sb wanted to go in and have a look, I explained why we couldn’t just do that. She’d apparently got the impression that all farms were like that.
Comment by DaddyBean — March 27, 2007 @ 7:12 am
Re Jan Brett - I think some of it is “over fussy” but the flash cards are lovely. Definitely worth checking you have pelnty of ink and thick paper and browsing!
Re “working farms” giggle, I can see how she could easily get that idea! Aprilia thinks all farms have shops full of scrummy home grown or home made goodies too!
Comment by Administrator — March 27, 2007 @ 9:41 am
I love Stockley Farm, we went there loads including a bitterly cold trip on S’s first birthday to watch carols being sung there
Comment by Nic — March 28, 2007 @ 10:28 pm