This is Monday again, start of the Easter holidays for our schooled counterparts.
Every day last week I had planned on taking the children to the local farm and everyday it rained. The day it didn't rain our eldest child was marching in Belfast with his Boys Brigade for their annual batallion parade.
So today, once again we thought we would brave the farm, and once again the rain has arrived. Not that it's a major issue getting wet and possibly muddy, but six children (two of them not mine) getting wet and muddy isn't fun to deal with.
There's not an awful lot to report, Mag had a tummy bug on Friday morning and Seb felt he needed to spend the day in bed so it was a very 'non event' day.
As for me I am fed up with nagging all of the children to keep their bedrooms tidy and pick up their clothes. I am toying with the idea of giving myself a break from nagging and ignoring the bedrooms and let them get really messy to see if anyone notices and starts to pick up. Has anyone tried this? Does it work, or is it just more hard work in the long run?
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Monday 29 March 2010
Thursday 18 March 2010
St Patrick's Day Climb!
Yesterday was St Patrick's Day. After a slow start to the day we decided to go for a walk up to Scrabo Tower. Scrabo Tower is built on Scrabo Hill and you can read more about it on this website http://scrabotower.com/scrabo-tower.html.
No point knocking, there is no one at home!
Its quite a treck up to the tower and around the quarries, this is what happened afterwards.
Worn out.
Resting.
Worn out.
Resting.
Music Man!
We had a jazz day at our regular home ed meet up last week. I have plenty photos of the day, unfortunately I had my camera set wrong so most of them came out rubbish. Regardless of the photos the children had the bast day to date at the meet up and are now all suitably inspired to learn something that makes lots of noise.
Mag is begging at least ten times a day now to learn the guitar, so that's what the next purchase will be.
Monday 8 March 2010
Exams, Freefall, Bump & A Birdhouse. How can they all be in the same blog post?
Well a week has gone by and every single day I had planned on writing a few lines to update everyone. So here it is all those few lines condensed into one post.
Monday the 1st of March was pretty much a study day for Mag. The nerves were increasing and I could see that he was starting to worry about the exams the following day. There came a point where I had to tell him to put his books away, enough was enough. I have no doubts at all in Mag's ability but seeing him get anxious like this makes me wonder how children cope with doing ten exams all at once. Well I guess they do, as I did it myself when I was a teenager, but looking at it from a parents perspective is a different issue.
Tuesday, exam day! I took Mag to the school where he was sitting his exams for doors opening and was greeted by the exam officer who showed him where he would be sitting both his exams that day. The morning exam started at 9:30 and he seemed pretty relaxed about it all. Mag was home for lunch then back in again for the next exam at 1:30, after that I had an informative chat with the exam officer to discuss what is next. It was an interesting day to say the least, its been almost three years since Mag had been at a school and I guess it would have been strange for him.
Wednesday was a 'down' day! I had to laugh because what I call a down day is when you do nothing of major importance; rest, watch TV, just hanging out around the house. I posted on Face book that this is what we were doing and everyone sent HUGS. I didn't have the heart to say that I didn't need the hugs, just thanked everyone instead.
Thursday morning I met up with a couple of home educating friends and their children at Indiana Land in Dundonald. Between us we had ten children and the whole place to ourselves which was good. Unfortunately for Mag he is too big to play there but he did get a couple of sneaky goes on the free fall slide. As for the girls, there was three seven year olds lined up along the top of the free fall with the colly wobbles was an amusing site. The mums all stood at the bottom shouting encouragement and each one stepping to the edge then jumping back. I am not sure if I would have done the free fall slide, but they all did it in the end.
At lunch time I had arranged to go have lunch with my friend Lorraine, which we did and had a great afternoon. I didn't want to leave to come home and I think the two of us could have chatted very easily for another couple of hours.
Friday was our day at the science museum, W5. We needed to get out the house again, we have spend a lot of time studying and doing 'school' that this last while so it was well deserved. The day was good except the fact Seb ran into some perspex in the afternoon and ended up going to the children's hospital. He was okay in the end, but left with a nasty bump on his head.
Oh and I almost forgot ... Ashley made a bird box, what do you think?
Monday the 1st of March was pretty much a study day for Mag. The nerves were increasing and I could see that he was starting to worry about the exams the following day. There came a point where I had to tell him to put his books away, enough was enough. I have no doubts at all in Mag's ability but seeing him get anxious like this makes me wonder how children cope with doing ten exams all at once. Well I guess they do, as I did it myself when I was a teenager, but looking at it from a parents perspective is a different issue.
Tuesday, exam day! I took Mag to the school where he was sitting his exams for doors opening and was greeted by the exam officer who showed him where he would be sitting both his exams that day. The morning exam started at 9:30 and he seemed pretty relaxed about it all. Mag was home for lunch then back in again for the next exam at 1:30, after that I had an informative chat with the exam officer to discuss what is next. It was an interesting day to say the least, its been almost three years since Mag had been at a school and I guess it would have been strange for him.
Wednesday was a 'down' day! I had to laugh because what I call a down day is when you do nothing of major importance; rest, watch TV, just hanging out around the house. I posted on Face book that this is what we were doing and everyone sent HUGS. I didn't have the heart to say that I didn't need the hugs, just thanked everyone instead.
Thursday morning I met up with a couple of home educating friends and their children at Indiana Land in Dundonald. Between us we had ten children and the whole place to ourselves which was good. Unfortunately for Mag he is too big to play there but he did get a couple of sneaky goes on the free fall slide. As for the girls, there was three seven year olds lined up along the top of the free fall with the colly wobbles was an amusing site. The mums all stood at the bottom shouting encouragement and each one stepping to the edge then jumping back. I am not sure if I would have done the free fall slide, but they all did it in the end.
At lunch time I had arranged to go have lunch with my friend Lorraine, which we did and had a great afternoon. I didn't want to leave to come home and I think the two of us could have chatted very easily for another couple of hours.
Friday was our day at the science museum, W5. We needed to get out the house again, we have spend a lot of time studying and doing 'school' that this last while so it was well deserved. The day was good except the fact Seb ran into some perspex in the afternoon and ended up going to the children's hospital. He was okay in the end, but left with a nasty bump on his head.
Oh and I almost forgot ... Ashley made a bird box, what do you think?
Monday 1 March 2010
Holie Festival of Colour
Yesterday we went to the Holi Festival in St George's Market, Belfast. It was hard to take good photos of the performers as there were so many people but I did manage to get a few of the kiddies.
This is the news footage from the festival http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8543389.stm
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