...OK, I wasn't completely useless today. I stayed in my pyjamas all morning, which was nice and peaceful: just me and the boys. At late lunchtime we had sandwiches, which lead to a discussion about numbers (as it does, sometimes!) And I was suddenly inspired to go and root out the Cuisinaire Rods and pour them onto the middle of the table.
They got quite into playing with them, and Fergus got into doing sums and stuff and we did a bit of work in a squared book.
(I'm sure you can buy books that have all this stuff in but Fergus said what's the point when you can do it yourself?)
I had to work with him at first, but he eventually got into doing some "Making tens" by himself, which I was highly impressed with as we hardly ever do this sort of stuff. He even came back for more, a couple of times and started writing his own sums out on another page.
(I'm sure you can buy books that have all this stuff in but Fergus said what's the point when you can do it yourself?)
I had to work with him at first, but he eventually got into doing some "Making tens" by himself, which I was highly impressed with as we hardly ever do this sort of stuff. He even came back for more, a couple of times and started writing his own sums out on another page.
I did eventually have to get dressed to Walk Clare's dog before it got dark, and feed the rabbits, and go and fetch Joy from the stables, which she calls "work". So quite a lot of us are working nowadays...
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