Signs of the times

 Phew, we managed to get through the first week back with only a few tears, a sprinkling of nighttime worries and just one nervous tummy ache. The boys were fine though...

When questioned about what they wanted to do this Friday, Gil asked for a playground and the woods, and Ferdy suggested going on an aeroplane. We settled on Gil's request and decided to go to Hicks Lodge.

But first some maths: Ferdy did lots of work with number sentences and times tables using dienes, numicons and even money. Gil did some adding up to 10 with the numicons; he was pretty excited that he recognised them from school.

Gil has learnt the letters s a t p this week and is thrilled to actually have his own work on flexischooling Friday (how long will this last? ponders Mum cynically..) so completed about half a dozen letter formation worksheets, whilst Ferdy and I looked at sentence types in his books and with some videos.

Ferdy is probably the slowest breakfast eater I have ever met; he even pointed out to me that during breakfast I had covered all the four sentence types we were learning:

Is Ferdy eating his breakfast? (question)

Ferdy, eat your breakfast! (command)

Ferdy is eating his breakfast. (statement)

What a lot of breakfast Ferdy has eaten! (exclamation)

So after an hour of eating breakfast, he was pretty much able to collate different sentence types from the book he's currently reading aloud, The Haunted Ark.

At Hicks Lodge we ticked both the playground and woods boxes, we also scooted around the lake, saw buzzards, horses, geese migrating, and lots of dogs, played hide and seek in the woods, climbed trees and ate ice creams.

There were signs everywhere. So when we got home, Ferdy colour coded the sentence types, and Gil circled the letters he had learnt.

We noted that a lot of the newer signs were commands; a clear indication of the world we live in right now.