Which I only got my head round at about 4pm when I suddenly remembered it was Rainbows tonight when someone was being all Friday-ish at work.
At home Ady was here until 1030am, then Mum came over for an hour or so and played drafts with Davies and got the children all whipped up about going to France. My parents have come into (a lot of) money recently and are splashing it about a bit and want to take us to France / Belgium for a couple of days before Christmas hence the passports things so Mum was talking to the children about that. Dad took over at lunchtime and Davies apparently beat Dad at drafts. This is a Big Deal, I don’t think I’ve ever beaten my Dad at drafts. Davies also told me today that unless Freya has got further in her Viva Pinata DS game he has now overtaken her. This is with only having the game for a week and having deleted the whole thing on Monday and having started again since then. Somewhere I’m still hung up on ‘conventional’ achievements when daily my children are making big old giant leaps in the things that matter to them! 😳
Davies had also spent some time setting up a ‘science lab’ in his bedroom with various test tubes, coloured liquids and his bubble lamp. He’s drawn diagrams in a notepad of what his experiments are supposed to show. I need to talk through with him the point of experiments but he certainly has the mad professor thing licked!
I had a good day at work. I overslept and woke up at 829am. I have to be at work at 9am so when I was starting the banking and was slightly woolly I felt quite justifiably so having only been up for half an hour and not having had a cup of tea yet. I did manage to pitch, quite convincingly, my idea for an Over 5s Story Session to the childrens’ librarian who had come in to see me though and I think we may have had a result with moving forwards on that. :)I did have a cup of tea before Baby Rhymetime though which was just as well as although the first session back after the summer break was 2 weeks ago when I was in a field with cows geocaching this was my first session back and the babies were pleased to see me. They have all grown loads over the summer and were all crawling. I had a semi circle of little people sat around me, clambering and trying to get into the instrument box and a veritable fight broke out about who was going to hold my hands for Row, Row, Row your boat! 😆
Lunchtime was interesting as I got chatting about children’s literacy to the new girl and had a bit of a rant about how schools are failing our children before confessing that I Home Educate. She listened to me go on about NC, how school is homogenising children, how one size doesn’t fit all and how I can’t change schools but I can change my own children’s experience of learning before asking ‘so wouldn;t you have been interested in a TA position instead then?’. If Scarlett had been there she’d have called her a pillock! 😆
The afternoon flew by, Sian – a relatively new member of staff who by utter coincidence has a sister who Ady works with so already knew of me, has a 2yo daughter with cerebral palsy who she is considering HE for. I have arranged to meet up with her outside of work, with our children to chat about it properly. Her sister has only met D and S once and they were at their most delightful so she has only good feedback so far ;).
I came home and brought various books with me which Davies fell upon, particularly 10 experiments your teacher never told you about which had some great stuff about mass, gravity, force, wind resistance etc.
Scarlett and I headed off to Rainbows; she brought her camera and got me to take a picture of her and all the Rainbows and for once talked properly about what she’d brought. I was slightly surrounded by Rainbows at the beginning all showing me their teeth gaps and wobbly teeth and talking to me about various things (including chickens). They did hama beading today which felt slightly odd. Scarlett seemed to enjoy it so I did remind her we have loads of hama beads at home she could do again if she wanted. Might have to bring them out and see if she is interested.
I dropped S home and whizzed up to Sainsburys for dinner supplies. Ady and Davies had been xboxing so Scarlett joined in with that. They played their DSs in bed for a while hence Davies and his progress on Viva Pinata. Scarlett came out to say she’d finally named another Nintendog Ruby and with fairly minimal help worked out how to spell it :). Im fairly sure I had more to say but it’s dissolved in a diluted haze of wine so it’ll have to wait for a more lucid posting.