One of those moments

When the kids were quietly working either side of me on the sofa, Annie with her spellings, and Tom with his new fraction book, which thankfully has proved to be a hit.

I bought the fraction, decimal and percentage workbooks from *here*

Ruthie, played happily by herself playing shops. Then she curled up on my lap at the end, so we were altogether. It was a nice moment, it doesn't happen as often as I'd like it too, but it does prove they are capable of doing it together.

Annie had started off on her FLL book, lesson 8, she begs to do more, I find it strange as it is a repetative book, but she seems to love it and it's working so I shouldn't grumble.

While they are on 'school' holidays, I want Annie to master the spellings she has, and to be confident with her 2's, 10's and 5 times tables, plus adding on 10 from any point from a number square.

With Tom I think I may get him started on Writing Strands 3 continue with the fractions book and do some Galore Park SYRWTL 1

We will lots of meets with friends, family and have sleepovers. The next 2 weeks will fly by.

I shall not post again until the new year now.

Full of cold & Plans

The whole family has gone down with very bad colds, the ones that go onto your chest and leave you with horrible coughs.
I'm lying on my bed surrounded by scrunched up tissues, ruminating about what I wanted to do with the kids during the holidays.

Since their going back to school last spring, the time has just flown by. I have pockets of time that I feel we did some 'HE' together.

With Annie it has been using First language lessons

That has been a success it's hard though as I feel she has to keep up with her school work, but for the time she is happy doing FLL along side school.

Tom as has been noted in previous posts, has both Maths and English sorted.

English mainly from posts from the SHE forum, which incidently has gone AWOL, if any members from there, pass by this blog , then do pop on and say hello.

I'm musing now what to sort out for the rest of the subjects for him. Science is the next on my list.

I have Galore Park Science SYRWTL 1


I like what Ive read so far, but I am wondering what else to supplement it with, perhaps Apologia General Science which is supposed to real thorough science. I'm not quite sure on that yet, as it is rather pricey!

That leaves, History, Geography, ICT, Art and Music, and maybe a language.

Maths now sussed - well just about.

English seems to be sorted, now it's the turn of Maths for Tom.


So You Really Want to Learn Maths Book 1: A Textbook for Key Stage 2 and Common Entrance (So You Really Want to Learn)along with the answer book that goes with it So You Really Want to Learn Maths Book 1: Answer Book (So You Really Want to Learn)

Next to help back up Galore Park is ConquerMaths I have the 2 discs, but many go online and pay monthly, I've been impressed with what I've seen so far, and I know quite a few from the HE community have used Conquer maths

then I'm hoping to use MEP which is from the University of Plymouth, it's free although you can buy the practise books for £3.00 which I'll think I'll probably do.

There sorted!

Some good links

I've posted below some good links from my old blog, I've posted them seperately as it helps if someone is looking on google search engine. I will be posting more over the next few days, hopefully there will be something that may be useful to someone.

Scott Foresman Reading - Online Grammar and Writing -Free

I came across this programme a little while ago, and I've just recently used it again. Thus reminding myself to put it on here.

It's called Scott Foresman Reading - Online Grammar and Writing by Pearson Education, Inc.

It's a great little scheme, you can take it 'grade' by 'grade' (yes it is American) you can check what year/grade your child would be in *here* It goes from Grade 1 to Grade 6

There are 6 units within each grade, you can pick and choose or do as I have which is take a couple of bits out of two or 3 of the grades (in this case it was on Proper and Common Nouns ) for some extra practise work. This is what makes this a great site it's very adaptable and flexible to what your child may need, and best of all it's FREE!

Coxhoe Primary School

This website for Coxhoe Primary School takes you from reception year up to year 6. They list their curriculum, but also have lots of resources and ideas too.

Click on either the classroom link or curriculum link.

Scholastic Free Printables

*Scholastic Magazines* is a place that has some free printables, these are activity/worksheets that are published in their magazines. Some are very good indeed, such as these *here*

English sussed!

I have been preparing for when T comes out of school. I wanted mainly Maths and English sussed first, I think I've just about sorted English.

1. Galore Park English
   
2. First Language Lessons level 3
3. Writing Strands 3
4. Spelling Book
5. Story Starters

Some he will be able to work independantly ie, Galore Park, Writing Strands, and the Spelling Book, with me just then testing the spellings. FFL3, will be done along side myself as it requires parent/teacher participation. Finally with Story Starters, this will not be done every week, but as and when needed.

Writing Strands is something I'm keen for him to do, with him still in school, I may add FFL3 to that, but I'll see.

Now to sort out the Maths