T-Bird Anni Rides Again

We watched the Sky Hunter Marathon on Class TV today.  I will admit I love Look and Read, I wish our school had used them, would have been much more fun than "First Aid in English" which is what we had to use.  Part of it was adding endings to words (hunt + er = hunter etc)  and they had read + er and Aprilia piped up "Reader! I’m a reader aren’t I mummy"  and yes, I think she probaby is.  In fact I think she has been for a while but it’s that perfectionist streak thing again - she couldn’t do it *well* and she would rather not struggle if you don’t mind thank you very much.  To prove the point she read another few booklets, she only has another 3 to go for her next fairy book then we are onto diagraphs and long vowels!  I have to say that for someone like Aprilia who needs baby steps and very little challenges that the Reading A-Z subscription I took out a few years ago to download the 50+ phonic books has been perfect. yes, she would have got here anyway whatever we used but this way she has been able to feel like there has been progress rather than limping along reading and re-reading the same ORT easy level books until she could recite them (or like me, being sick of the sight of Peter and Jane!)  Anyway, no "raspberry moment" just yet but it’s peeping at me from round the corner I think.

She had a long lie in again this morning so I managed to wade through the last bit about Owen and managed to become totally schitzophrenic about some of it - he had so much insight into the failings of our modern education system (obiously a true visionary in his observations that it’s no good teaching a child to read and write if they don’t know what to do with it once they have learned) but at the same time  he was jaw droppingly arrogant about the fact that the purpose of education within his communtiy was to produce good, happy little citizens who would dutifully turn up for work, never dream of fleecing the company and be all round docile little drones.  Sigh, nothing changes much does it? 

Anyway, in other news, the financial crisis may be sorted after a fashion.  There isn’t a cat in hells chance of us getting the £2k owed to him by the private ambi company.  However, the Red Cross have taken over the contract at least until October when it’s up for tender and are hoping to get the tender at that point.  So he’s back doing night work and hopefully the Red Cross will be a bit better at paying!