Monday brings some new starts!!

Bulk shopping brings big boxes and I am always trying to think what to do with them before they get thrown in the recycling. This box gave me a great idea to get the children to make a 3D solar system scene, so with great enthusiasm they started painting the box black to look like space. Over the next few days we will be filling it with planets and all things space.

Ciara has started button threading, a great task for refining those fine motor skills in preparation for writing and drawing.
She enjoyed it straight away.
I find the children all enjoy doing their spelling tests on the whiteboard rather than a piece of paper, and Jude has started to join in too. Doing a little often seems to be helping Jude a great deal with his blending, reading and spelling.
This is how all the children eat their breakfast - with their noses in a book, in fact they never sit down to breakfast until they have all fetched themselves a book to read, and they make sure they take their time eating :D
Jude was so pleased that his Maths curriculum arrived in the post, the girls make such a fuss about theirs. I wish I had the photo of his happy face when we opened the box and he realized it was for him. He started it today and did the first 12 pages. He is also going through the Saxon curriculum but funnily most of the first book is about playing out maths with manipulatives and no writing which the girls loved at his age, but he doesn't enjoy it. He wants to be able to write numbers and work things out, he also has a very good grasp on high numbers so this seemed really suitable for him as the Saxon is still on the first 20 numbers which is frustrating for him.
And Niamh finally got her Beta curriculum so was also very eager to start this today.

I have just come across this series of books and they are fantastic. The kids are enjoying this story as it ties in with their space theme.

I have read through this book with the girls and started to read it to Jude today(although I noticed the girls having a listen in from what they were doing too). It is a lovely book which presents many doctrinal truths on a level for a young child to understand.