Breakfast in bed!
Great way to start the day! Slightly over-generously buttered toast, orange juice and my vitamins all fetched up to me by Aprilia. We staying in relaxed mode all morning then (except for where I fought with the Sonlight Ordering system - I won eventually!) but decided to flex the brain cells a little in the afternoon. So she did 4 pages of Starter Stile (due to the excitement of being told that "grown up Stile" has been ordered) which she found little or no troubles with after me giving her a pep talk about the fact that she can in fact read and that all she needs now is a little more practice to get really good at it. I based this on the fact that she read to me yesterday and only stumbled on a few non-phonic words but read the rest beutifully, complete with expression and understanding rather than just saying the words mechanically without knowing what they actually meant or noticing punctuation which seems to be alarmingly prevelent amongst my Rainbows (and makes me wonder who’s conning who with all these high literacy results that teh school they all go to gets…) And I’m doing that ridiculously long sentence thing again - sorry!
She also did lots of bouncing after watching the Bernadette Tynan thing about making your child a genius where she said taht trampolining was great for brain development. Aparently NASA gets teh astronaughts doing it to develop some clever stuff so it must be true…..
We also knitted, she painted a box to be a racing car, complete with a very round hand-drawn circle to put the number in, which she sat in for rather a lot of the day, and I dried all the remaining washing which has shifted the washing mountain from the baskets on the landing to my bed waiting to be put away. Never ends does it!
