I'm going to try to keep this fairly up-to-date, but before I do that I thought I'd better start off by having a look back at what we've been up to lately.
For the past 6 months or so we have mostly been reading, or rather I have been reading to K & M. It began with Swallows and Amazons (all 12 of them), followed by the 7 Chronicles of Narnia books and then we moved on to some Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, we're waiting for the library to get Little Lord Fauntleroy in and I've also found that I have a copy of The Lost Prince). As well as reading the books, we've been watching various tv and film adaptations of quite a few of the above, which has been quite interesting.
M is playing the piano quite a lot at the moment, and K is a bit too but has also been sort of composing a bit too (she's been playing a piece backwards with a few alterations and writing it down in her own way).
A while back, following a conversation with K & M about what I feel my job as their HEing mummy is (namely to help them learn to read, write and know how to find stuff out and think for themselves), we made an agreement that we would, all 3 of us, spend a minimum of 5 minutes a day for a month doing writing. We stuck to that pretty well and I think that, although we're no longer doing it, it did serve a purpose. Previously it wasn't something that they would think of doing, but now they do occasionally (particularly M) and it has shown them that they can.
Finally, other popular things at the moment seems to be sewing, either binka or making little stuffed things from felt.
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