cos she’s been droopy all day! She doesn’t think she’s “done school” today but then she doesn’t count watching Letterland, Jolly Phonics or Word Machine videos as “educational” and I’m not telling 
Highlight of the day was finding the Beatrix Potter anthology so extra stories were had today…. The tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Mrs Tiggy Winkle (my personal favourite!) and The fierce bad rabbit. Lovely.
Cebeebies website
rat a tat tat purple video
horse and his boy (they all meet up again at the tombs and head out across the desert)
how tree seeds get about (nature book)
all about rivers (encycleopedia)
Swimming
Lots of singing, rattling of tambourine and socialising
2 stories and a late bedtime!
No idea where this morning went! I know she played for some time on the Cebeebies website, I know she watched Rat-a-Tat-Tat on video and after some fuss agreed to be read to (then loved every minute of it once we got going!) but somehow it got to 1pm alarmingly fast!
Swimming this afternoon was good, she finished everything for the ARC level 1 swimming award including putting her whole face in the water twice.
This evening was a “Churches Together” service, she was (as ever) totally ace, really well behaved, sang in tune along with the songs she knew and rattled a tambourine in time with the bouncy songs much to the delight of the vicar! I’m now hoarse due to practicing for an hour before the service, singing before and during it and all the gossiping afterwards. Time for bed!
knew I’d missed some stuff out, thanks Kirsty for reminding me…
Geomags - lots of them
Plastic Meccano - we don’t have enough
Don’t really need any more yet but you can never have too many Hama beads and Merry has kits that I don’t own yet (which needs to be remedied!)
Do swimming lessons count as a home ed cost? That would be about £100 for the year if we go back or £120 for season tickets for both of us to just go and swim whenever we wanted.
Languages
I’d really love some Spanish stuff for us. I’m doing OU Spanish starting soon adn would like something to go with it for Becca! I suppose I could get Rossetta Stone in for the future but not yet!!!
Also for music…
matching Harelquin violins in purple (form www.bonnersmusic.co.uk), I think she’s nearly big enough for the smallest size and it’s about time I got a full size one - mine is 7/8th size which is an oddball size, won’t fit into most cases without faffing about with extra padding and is a pain to get rests to fit! (Ros, I’ll be saving up very hard for a while, don’t let the shop stop stocking them for at least another year!!!!)
Oh, and I want a ceramic alto occarina to replace the one that smashed last year, the plastic one is okay but doesn’t have the tone. www.ocarina.co.uk sell them now as a 6 hole oc for £25, I like 6 hole ocs, saves all the messing with half covering holes! and I want a ceramic bass too, just cos they sound good!
That’s got to get me nearer the £1k mark but of course they last more than 1 year which leaves me struggling to hit the £2k mark next time…. sigh, never realised it would be this hard…. Ros, I need to take lessons from you - how you fixed????
Assuming unlimited budget this is what I want to buy over the next year…. it’s a big wish list adn no way would I get through it all but hey! Fantasy Education reconed I would be spending £40 a week, that’s just over £2k for the year and I’d like to aspire to taht!!!!
Sonlight Year 1 core plus arround £400 but not going to just order the core wholesale, I want to get picky this time, $16 is a lot of money for a **** ring binder!!!)
Getty Dubay handwriting arround £4 (want a book for me too!)
From Halfmoon Books
all kids r inteligent books, both sets, arround £30
My Pals are Here books arround £15 for a year’s worth
Artistic Pursuits £28
From Rainbow or wherever…
Further up and Further in - unit study for the narnia books, don’t need it but I’d love it!
Prairie Primer plus a lot of little house books to go with it! again don’t need it but if I’m going to spend £2k I need to go some!
General
Loads of art and craft supplies, could probably spend a good £100 on that without trying.
DArn, not got anywhere near the £1k mark here, must think some more on this…..
really I do!!!!! Must start seriously saving up, it’s only £99 after all, should only take me til this time next year…. it’s the dark purple one I’m lusting after by the way
Church
light lunch
Music group practice
Oulton for a nap with Daddy (nearly joined her!)
Lots of pages of Starter Stile pre-reading book 1 (now finished)
handwriting (trace over) and SLK LA week 1 final part
Zac the Rat read book with some confidence
oh, nearly forgot, half an hour on Study Dog this morning
got bored of trying to cross-link all the blogs to each other so if you look in my links bit (just below the rather useless Flickr badge) there is one to “one blog to rule them all” from which you should be able to see a links bar with links to the other blogs. I was planning on trying to put something clever so that it would show up if there was a new post in any of the blogs but I’ll leave the clever bits to someone else…..
