We started out with a Particularly Bad Day (more on that in another post, when I'm not having a Friday night glass of wine and waiting for DH to return from the Chinese!)
But it left me with a large hangover of Mum-Guilt and had me (momentarily) questioning whether we're doing the 'right thing' (erm, hell yes, we are!), whether the kids are making enough "progress" (cringe!) and whether the kids are 'achieving' enough academically, (I know, right? But hey, Mum-Guilt..).
So I had a quick count up of what we have done, just this week -
DS (7) has finished reading his little 42 page chapter book, with great success but more enchantingly (and independently) he has worked on his rain water irrigation system for his lavender garden outside (he now has repurposed old lengths of guttering to capture rain water), designed a hen house (to be converted from DH's old shed), written a little book on Dangerous & Poisonous Plants, decided he will do The Wild West for his USA project so researched prospecting, gold mining, wagon trains, tornados, windmills, farming and more. He's built some gorgeous Lego creations including a space vehicle that generates oxygen through controlled photosynthesis, built a 4 foot wooden catapult in the garden to launch water balloons, whittled a little model of his tortoise George out of bark (complete with embedded shell eye!!!) and made an awesome working hover craft from a kit he got for his birthday!
Meanwhile, DD (9) has read 8 library books, the first 3 Harry Potters (in as many days!), written a short essay on herself - in French! She has continued to research and work on her USA project, decided she would learn about Vikings and long boats, challenged herself with Brain Box The World (Geography game) learning facts from around the world, made a 3D model of me out of card board (complete with stand!), painted, drawn, coloured and been to book group at the local library.
On top of this they've both been to their gymnastics class, to the park with friends, on a canal boat trip learning about locks and canal life and been for a trial session at a Youth Club!!!
Did I mention that's THIS WEEK?!!! Just this week!!
Mum-Guilt assuaged (for now!)
I think we're doing ok 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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