We had home ed group today. It takes us about forty minutes to get there by car so plenty of time for conversation or music on the way. Today we conversed. Ms R was wanting to know what a quarter of a year was. She knows about halves but didn’t know about quarters so we talked about how sometimes I cut the sandwiches into two pieces and sometimes I cut them into four. We talked about a quarter and three quarters which was fine and how we say half instead of two quarters which took a bit longer to understand. So she now knows that she is five years and a small sandwich old.
For some reason marriage came up again. Ms R is thinking that she’ll marry her best friend when she is grown up and just borrow some seeds when she wants to have babies. She’s thinking that Daddy probably has loads of seeds left over because we only used two of his and you usually get loads of seeds in a packet. Master R really wants to marry Ms R when he grows up and is quite happy to let her have some of his seeds to make babies although his not really sure where men get seeds from, maybe Daddy will give him some when he’s bigger. Ms R is grateful for his offer of seeds but thinks he needs to find someone else to grow his babies for him as she’ll be having her babies with her best friend and he needs to find someone else to marry because when you grow up you need to find a new person to bring into our family. It seemed that I wasn’t really needed in that conversation so I mostly kept out of it other than to say that usually men didn’t give their seeds to their daughters or sisters and that was why it was best to find someone outside of the family to marry. I’m not really sure where the marriage thing has come from, we are married but it’s not something I’ve been especially promoting.
Screen printing (aka putting pictures on t-shirts) was the activity at home ed group today. I really enjoyed it and the Rs loved their t-shirts. It was lovely to see the children running around in a group outside afterwards. From what I saw Ms R was an active participant and Master R was managing to keep up. I was told of their kindness for making a new person feel welcome so that was good too.
After we got home we visited my Mum. Ms R cycled her bike and I cycled mine with Master R on the back. It’s quite a long way for a first cycle ride but Ms R did really well and was clearly very proud. She cycled along mostly on the path ringing her bell everytime she saw a pedestrian and singing a made up song about how happy she was riding her bike which got smiles from everyone we passed.
Mum has a new kitten, it’s ginger and gorgeous.
At bedtime Master R is enjoying our set of lift-the-flap Noddy books and I am reading Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator for Ms R which I’m enjoying because I’ve never read before but I think she is struggling to follow because there are so many words that she has never come across before (like president and bomb) which probably make it incomprehensible. They also both requested a poem after their stories although I suspect this is more to do with delaying sleep time than a genuine interest.