"Buzz Buzz" ... "Ring Ring" ... Oh it's the alarm again. A sound I hate so much and yet has me awake in a millisecond. I am however an avid user of the snooze function. Something they should never have invented as it often makes me late! Do they not know how much I love my bed? And how little self control I have?? So here we are again! Another day another zoom meeting x 4! I drag myself up after 1 snooze and 2 minutes before the next. I hear Jessica's feet thump out of bed and the time is 08:48. Sophie is due on zoom at 9am so I whip up the stairs to wake her up. We go to Jessica's bed as she has got out of it and snuggle down together for 5 minutes. Her soft little cheeks resting on mine. These are the most precious of relaxed moments. Shame we are time limited but off we go downstairs for zoom at 08:59.
Tried to log in on her ipad but it's not working again so default to my laptop and arrive 7 minutes late. The work in straight forward and they haven't started yet so all good. Today they had to lengthen a sentence by adding the word And - then expanding. The first part of the sentence was "I peeked my head out of the rope AND a little child picked up the mouse and drove him home" was what she added in her writing here.
Sophie's zoom ended and I logged Jessica onto Maths. This was at 10:15am - Today she did a revision of symmetry. She had to draw some of her own. I don't really get to hear what's going on in her zoom as i'm either busy with Sophie or on the sofa and she's up the table. During this time I fed Sophie breakfast - around 10:15 - Whilst Jess was occupied.
Roll on to 10:30 and it was Sophie's Maths zoom time! She had to fill in the gaps on a sheet the number, the word number and the representation. The line or stick represents 10. She found this dead easy. Her finding Maths is a testament to me really from last lockdown! Just gonna blow my own trumpet a minute - something I extremely rarely do! When I was teaching her last lockdown I have them daily Maths and English worksheets. She was whizzing through them so I started her on Year 1 work. So basically she is ahead of most of the others in the class in this area. She's always loved numbers so just going with the love of them. I honestly thought I had messed them up and they would be so behind after lockdown. But after the parent's evening in November they confirmed that she was ahead in reading and Maths than the other children. And doing well with English etc. And was in line with her keywords - Which if you remember I also kept her working hard on daily. So i'm proud of myself really that I did so well. Jessica's review was also good and no areas of concern. Middle of the road. The only issue was she has messy writing LOL! Takes after me then ...
So the last zoom of the day was Jessica's English at 11:00. So she ate before this started. Not that this child eats much! Her English was a live teaching lesson where they had to write a few sentences about themselves. And one as her speaking as a person from a story. The paragraph in the picture is what she wrote about herself.
After the zoomers were done the kids went on ipads on You Tube and Roblox. I took this opportunity to crawl into Jessica's bed to catch up on some sleep again. I got around 1:45 - 8:30 so wasn't too bad last night. I wanna keep on top of sleep though as i'm useless when really tired and just cannot function. I naturally need around 9-10 hours a night! I did sleep better again last night though - it was 1:45 rather than the 2:30am I have been seeing of late so that's good. I'm still doing the headspace meditation app and I think this is starting to work maybe. Any way I napped a couple of hours then got up and got dressed and started on the day in the kitchen. Then Big Jet TV on the laptop whilst I had caffine. Then fed some kids - sub pizza slices - they love em! Then got on with more housework.
Today Sophie had a date! Her imaginary boyfriend is Charn from through the dragons eye. Some of you may remember watching this as kids in primary school! Here he is:
For any of you who have no idea what on earth I am on about the plot can be seen here on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Dragons_Eye
He was a baddy and zapped people with some electric shock that comes out his fingers. Apparently he never zaps Sophie because he loves her LOL.
I showed the series of this to the kids last lockdown as part of English learning and as a reward for completing work. They both loved it - more Sophie than Jess. Once she got over her fear as it did give her nightmares for a few nights - Oops! Then she became obsessed with it and wanted to watch more. Any way once he got defeated come the end of the series she was well happy. And now he is her imaginary boyfriend?!
So to the date ... Here she is dressed up ready ... She coloured her nails and her face in with red felt tip pen. She packed a hand bag with lipstick, stickers?! And something else. And took her ipad on the date ... As you do!!
Once she arrived she set up a table and 2 chairs in the hallway in the dark. She had little fairy lights and a ring in a box in the middle. About the time I arrived she had had her first kiss and was about to get engaged. So he moves quick!! That said I think this is the 3rd or 4th marriage she has had to him lol. Kids are sooo funny!!
So that concludes today. Got the kids in bed and lights out just after 10 for Jess and 10:30 for Sophie. Due to the early morning I didn't get to see anyone again - Yippee! Went to prep school stuff for tomorrow but haven't used any of it. I couldn't be bothered! Bad parenting I know ...! They had their zoom sessions though and didn't want to push it tbh. I still feel routineless. Mostly because I feel like I'm not doing enough with them. Work ends within an hour as Jess gets on with it and i'm not trying to hurry Sophie up who doesn't want to do anything. I think we will skip Jessica's Maths zooms next week. All they are is marking work that they should have done already. The trouble is the work goes up at 7:30am and then the zoom is 2/3 hours later. So no real time to do anything! I like to plan it all the night before. Any way that's that sorted! Wrote to all of you too. I like this - I like emptying my brain of the day and starting the evening !? (at 00:36 ...) afresh ready for sleep.
Right off to chill on facebook, netweather forums (looking for snow!) and scout out BBC news - oh and catch up on my favourite blog - Attic24 - She's soooo hygge!
Sleep well/good morning all! Hope you all have a good sleep/good day! Love the very mad house!! Xx
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