We're getting there · Tuesday September 19, 2006 by june
Well everyone was up and ready to go before 9am and, as a result, we got moving so much quicker.
We started on the Dr Who project this morning. Which went down well all round. (I’m thinking about writing it up fully, and putting it on the web site, so I won’t go into too much detail here.) As a result James has spent every spare moment today on the bbc.co.uk Dr Who website (check out the ‘webcasts’ and ‘ebooks’). See what I mean when I say, “what they do in the gaps can be much more interesting than the routine Home Ed activities”.
Liz is still trying to finish those books because they really do need to go back to the library. I still can’t understand how it is possible to read more than one book at a time. One of the books is Hugo Pepper by Paul Stewart – I read this on holiday, and it is such a clever book. I’ve also read Corby Flood, which is equally good. Tom is a great fan of Paul Stewart’s other books: Muddle Earth, and The Edge Chronicles series.
They both did their maths, James coped better today – he seems to have done a reasonable job of learning this unit after all. They both did their music. Liz and I played London Bridge is Falling down as a round, which was fun. James has taken on the task of learning a tune by ear from a CD – he’s doing frighteningly well – it constantly amazes me how good he is at this stuff. So he did more accordion than usual today.
Meanwhile Liz and I prepared for a D&T activity we are planning to do by watching the videos on the website.
Tuesday evenings bring a “everyone is going to a club” runaround (one of them goes to two on a Tuesday evening). So I’m now in a mad rush to get food on the table before 6pm.
So that’s it today. The routine Home Education work is getting sorted out and planned into our day, and we had lots of free time – which is how we like it
