T-Bird Anni Rides Again

Sonlight week 17 (good grief, at this rate we may actually complete it within 2 yaers you know!)

Usbourne Greek Myths
Child’s History of the World - Fairytale Gods
Day by Day
things you find underground (from an Usbourne book!)

3 pages Miquon RED!!!!!!!!  At Last!!!!!!!!!
3 Reading A-Z level E books

painted Duke’s den, apart from the corner he couldn’t empty and will carefully move the contents of so we can paint there too. 

Me

Entire chapter of course book read/listened to
Essay mind map begun
resisted pile of snax delivered by small child mid afternoon so feeling vaguely virtuous

All the usual suspects for read alouds

More HP5

Big Brain Academy (I think that covers all the bases on puzzles!)

Some dolch word work

Visit from the Firemen who came to give us 2 new smoke alarms and give is the fire safety pep talk (and fuss the cat and chat to Aprilia about 999 and DS games!!!)

Much playing on treadmill, wobble board and Lo-lo as well as some "brain gym" type excercises. 

Mopped living room floor remarkably well (I love tiled floors!) 

Day by Day
Mountain Born (sigh, not the most gripping SL book to date)
Usbourne World History (Egyptian leisure time)
Usbourne Animals (reptiles dining habits)

Much wobble board play whilst she listened 

HP5 interspersed throughout

Starter Stile - 1 page
Miquon - 1 page but some "cheating" by looking at the times table poster!

Swimming

Quick chat about on-line personal safety (sparked by ad for BBC watch it again for the Panorama from Monday) 

Day by Day
King Tut.
Mountain Born
Flower Fairy poem

Jungle Jim

Sight word cards
practical demo of pictograph

Room tidying
 

chores

Miquon
RAZ level c reader (yawn)

King Tut
Mountain Born
Flower Fairy
Usbourne animal encycleopedia
Day by Day bible

Shopping (more yawn)

Watched Dr Who Christmas specials on the BBC see it again thing

Exhibited somewhat limpet-like behaviour, darn, I hadt it when she’s tired!

Her

put away clean clothes and did 10 minutes room tidying

multiple puzzle pages (at her request) including some maths and reading/writing bits

various board games (I’m always tempted to call them BORED games, most of them are so mindless, I need to find some better ones!)

lots of trampette bouncing (we count taht as PE round here)

Me

roughly 1 hour reading my set text ready for hte new course (are you all ready to deal with me wobbling again??)

dishwasher emptying and filling

clothes washing

assisting with finding the floor in Aprilia’s room

cleared teh shelf that needs to go in order for the TV to cool properly as it was getting awful hot (did I mention how ridiculously big that TV was?) 

Cat cuddling  

Homer Price
Day by Day
Flower Fairies
Houses and Homes (only somewhat sweeping in their statements this week)
Starting Point Science (flowers and seeds)
Roman Mystery - Pirates of Pompeii

MFW phonics (which magically turned up after a week’s absence when I muttered about getting a much hated alternative back out of the cupboard…)
Miquon - the start of multiplication

Bits of paired reading and solo reading, waiting for the next leap forwards in confidence now.

Lots of playing with the kitten and learning that you don’t abandon other pets when a new one arrives. 

day by Day devotions
Houses and homes - less sweeping statements these 2 days!
Prince Caspian
Pirates of Pompeii (Next Roman Mystery)
Science-y bits including some very successful experiments

Finished Wizard Whimstaff English
Miquon
MFW phonics
SL blue reader
various Dr Seus bits

Picked up some good tips of SMart

Watched the Henry teh 8th stuff on Class TV

Got more paint on teh paper than on herself (is this some sort of developmental milestione?) 

Day By Day
Houses and Homes - all Rainforrest dwellers run round half starkers and just have leafy rooves over their heads.  Don’t ya just love sweeping statements!
Prince Caspian
A-Z book
flower Fairy poem
Secret of Vesuvius - Pliny, the master of understatement "yes, the volcano does look to be a bit more active than it was"  as it spits fire….  Great book, not for those of you uncomforable with Christianity though.

MFW phonics (shh, don’t tell her but she can actually read a bit…)
Finished Wizard Whimstaff Science (5-6  book)
oops, forgot to do maths!
learned all about mind maps whilst I tried to finish one off for my revision.  It’s now VERY pictorial

Looked at time and realised we had 5 minutes before RAinbows so did headless chicken thing  

day by day devotions
Houses and Homes "in Africa people live in mud huts"…..hmmmm
Prince Caspian
Missionary Stories with the Millars - Gladys Aylward
Starting Point Science - definitions page

Miquon
Wizard Whimstaff Science - push and pull
MFW phonics "igh" - nope, didn’t get that one, didn’t remember yesterday’s "wor" either.  We may be plateau-ing for a while again

Read bits of several Sr Seus books, worked out the "hard" words and stumbled on "there" and "on" etc

Other local HE family visited and they did that thing where they rubbed along without killing each other (just)