you would think she’d had had enough of tents really!
but no, the little one is currently pitched in the garden and "tent ed" has been in full swing for a few days. Which of course, is due to the fact that I’d declared it Summer Holidays and no more education was going to be offered! We’ve finished Follow My Leader which, after a grim start, she really enjoyed. We have also plodded on with the History bit of Core 1, we’ve drifted off from the plan now and I’m just limping through it a bit at a time. Some days she’s really interested in it, others she really, really isn’t and having been turned off history as a child I don’t want to do the same to her by pushing it, it’s taken me years to find out how interesting it all is and I can’t help but feel I’ve missed out all these years!
She has a cousin coming tomorrow for a sleep over, the pair of them get along so well, Em is 4 years older than Aprilia but she’s great with her, like the sort of Older Sister I would have loved (not like the Older Brother I got….. who I loved dearly but who was a bit of a monster at times!) She has the whole thing planned out…… it had better not rain on her parade (or her bbq for that matter!) 
and has even done some tidying up in honour of the visit!
It has poured down here (n.w.wales) all day! I hope your weather is better!
And why decide education is over for the summer. Its the best time for beach education
Comment by Vicki — August 17, 2008 @ 9:05 pm
we had mixed wether, and we seem to have the same today but hey ho. We are fairly structured here Vicki so when the routine of stories and puzzles gets to be a bit of a drag we call it holiday time and abandon it for a while. And beach ed only works if you have a beach within easy reach that isn’t heaving with holiday makers (besides, beaches are merely the bit between dry land and that huge gret big paddling pool as far as Aprilia is concerned!)
Comment by Administrator — August 18, 2008 @ 8:31 am