Monster & Teeny

Monday - Home Ed group in the day where the children had a good time. Teeny and F played together for ages drawing and sticking foam shapes onto paper. Then Monster joined them and they made a big wooden train track which lots of the other children joined in with. Monster and F had a long play together too pushing each other round on a toy car which they both enjoyed.

In the afternoon Monster and Teeny played X box together with Monster being very patient about showing her how to do various things.

My Dad came over to look after Teeny while I took Monster off to Badgers but we arrived to find they had finished and were not running any more. We were expecting it to end by the end of the year but this was earlier than anticipated. We have a Christmas party to go to later in December but that it is for the local group. I have already signed Monster up to the nearest local group which is a more successful one with lots of attendees so he will start there in January.

Tuesday In the morning Monster and I did some more film making and then he and Teeny played with the foam blocks and soft toys for ages. In the afternoon I made some flapjacks and Lucy came round with R & R. Later still our friend Mel came round with L & L (friends who go to school) for tea. A very rowdy day filled with lots of company finished with me heading off to Reading Group in the evening.

Wednesday  Lucy came round in the morning and looked after the children while I went to the dentist. SIL came round mid morning with J & M and we all walked over to our local park for a play. SIL, J & M came back for lunch and Lucy, R & R joined us again later for lots of playing, including dressing up, a huge wooden train track and lots of toy dinosaurs and cars. Teeny and R did some bead threading too.

Thursday  In the morning Monster X boxed while Teeny spent ages making tap a shape pictures, then we watched Class TV for a while. I made some pizza dough and we headed round to Lucy’s in time for lunch where we made pizzas with the children. Interesting and fun but convinced me once and for all that a) I have not missed any sort of vocation to teach and b) autonomy is the right way . A nice afternoon of playing and chatting. Our friend who moved to Ireland a couple of years ago came over in the evening for a lovely catch up.

Friday In the morning A and I took the children to Toys R Us for Teeny to look at toys and get some idea of what she wants for her birthday. Home for lunch and some more filmmaking - this time a geomag figure dancing. In the late afternoon I popped out to post some parcels.

Saturday  I went Christmas shopping with my Mum while A and my Dad stayed home with the children. They did lots of board game playing and Monster put on a show in the playroom where he organised decorations, created a stage, sorted lighting and snacks. He was less organised about the actual content of the show which seemed to rely fairly heavily on audience participation but it was fun to watch just the same.

Sunday Lots of computer play this morning - Barbie website for Teeny which required lots of putting her name in so I wrote it down for her to copy and she got very quick at typing it and finding the letters on the keyboard. I think she got more out of that than the actual playing the games . Monster played Cat in the Hat, Zoombinis and an animation game.
After lunch Monster continued on his Zoombinis fest while Teeny and I did some decorating of plastic wine glasses to make goblets for her birthday party, writing each guests name on a goblet and decorating it with glitter and jewels - lots of fun .