Another week gone.

Things are plodding on here.  Both K & M are making Christmas cards and presents, although of course I can't say too much about that.

K is continuing to spend quite a lot of time trying to crack one particular puzzle on Lure of the Labyrinth and both K & M are doing some French on Duolingo pretty much every day.  Mystery Science is also still going well.  K and I have finished off our first 'unit of study' The Birth of Rocks and M decided to give it a go and has now done two of the four 'mysteries' in that unit too.  K meanwhile, rather to my surprise I must admit, agreed to write a summary of the unit; what it covered and what she learned and possibly something additional that she looked into to follow up something that she found interesting.

A few weeks ago, K did actually get round to writing the letter that we had talked about, about home education and her thoughts on it.  Unfortunately she managed to lose her first draft (and it still hasn't turned up) and as a result of this, the final result was rather less comprehensive than the earlier version or notes I had caught glimpses of.  The summary, however, would be that she wants to continue with home education but thinks that she will probably want to do some qualifications at some point.  The other thing that resulted from the letter was that I learned that her method of using punctuation is rather unconventional and not entirely successful.  For the letter, she wrote the whole letter and then went back over it and added punctuation in.  Consequently, we've done a bit more work on punctuation and this week, she did another piece of writing (I gave her a choice of three topics) about her trip to Granny's last week and put punctuation in as she went along and it was much better.  One thing that I have learned is just how much of my punctuating is by instinct and feel rather than knowing 'the rules', particularly with commas.  So we've had a look at our Basher Punctuation book to help out with that side of things.

Unfortunately M hasn't been too well this week, which scuppered our plans somewhat in the first half.  On Monday we had plans to go into town with Granny, get some shopping done and meet up with A for lunch.  M really wasn't up to town though, so we cancelled lunch, Granny and K went in the morning, then we had take-away pizza for lunch back at home, before I went in on my own in the afternoon.

Tuesday was the Fun Club Christmas concert and M was very unhappy not to be well enough to go.  She had been planning to take part and play the French horn.  Nurse Granny sprang into action and stayed at home with her, while K & I went.  I have played the piano to accompany carols for a number of years now and had agreed to do the same again this year.

On Wednesday Granny headed home and since then we've had a couple of low key days and fortunately M was well enough for Scouts on Thursday evening, when she was invested.  Just like K though, she decided that she didn't want Mummy and Daddy there.  Ho hum.