The best things come in threes

The luxury that we have on Fridays is to be able to adapt the day according to Ferdy's mood. I think that some little kids (ie Ferdy) do not take much in when they aren't in the mood to learn. If we start doing something, and it seems that he is too distracted or can't concentrate, we can postpone it to later, or occasionally even the next day.

This Friday, Ferdy was not in the mood to learn. He's tired, he's very grumpy, and the only thing that he wants to do is play Star Wars with Gil, watch Star Wars or listen to audiobooks. He even took to his bed at 6pm straight after supper one night this week and spent all evening listening to Mr Gum. Ferdy hasn't been to bed before 8pm since he was about two years old.

So today we did no writing, no reading, no maths and no phonics.

Instead we went to the park and the woods all morning. We played pirates (yes, I had to join in), we did races and chasing, and Ferdy & Gil had lots of stick / light sabre fights.

In the afternoon the three of us went to see Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

 

We'd seen Hiccup Theatre doing The Gingerbread Man last year, and all of us really enjoyed it. The songs are really catchy - we still sing the Run, Run, Run song even now - and they are so innovative with the set and costumes and delightfully bring the story to life.

The Three Bears was equally engaging. Goldilocks was very funny as a spoilt brat, and the hapless three bears were charming in their double bobble hats. My favourite thing was the set made of recycled materials (the underlying message was reduce, reuse and recycle or 'make, do, mend and make better'), which, muchlike the Wombles, the bears gathered daily in the woods. I think I'd rather like to look through windows made out of toilet seats, and have a shower powered by bike wheels.

Ferdy's best bit was when the puppet baby bear had a shower (a bucked filled with bits of blue paper), and Gil's was when Golidlocks burnt herself on the oven...

I'd like to say when we got home we did lots of reading and writing but the truth is, when we got home Ferdy spent an hour making ships out of lego and then I let him watch Star Wars VII.

However, at the weekend, he wrote a theatre review, he read his whole schoolbook and I even caught him practising writing the number 3.

Back on Jan 11th.