Saving scheme

School was slightly better today than yesterday, although took three hours! We started promptly after the nine am news, then worked until about 10.15, and only took a break long enough to hang up the washing plus five minutes, so about 20 minutes, then started again and only finished at 12. Granted, we took a bit of extra time studying the calendar and sticking on little stickers to mark out our birthdays and so on – Caleb asked how much time that had wasted, but I said nothing was wasted when it came to learning! He’s much too clever. The first writing we did this morning was on huge pieces of paper, with coloured kokies. The curriculum suggests that we vary the writing, as the point of this section is to get the spellings into their heads – so instead of writing on the same boring paper every day with the same boring pencil, we do fun stuff as well. Tuesdays therefore is the day for writing it big. The maths was fairly straightforward – no new concepts yet, and they’re enjoying the novelty of each having their own books to write in. After lunch I went to town for a couple of things, with Aaron with me as usual. I was pleased to be able to buy cremora again, at long last! Aaron saw a plastic piggy bank at the Emporium which he wanted to buy for Caleb, as thinks that Caleb always has money which needs saving. Also, we had read a story about a girl who had emptied her piggy bank to buy bibles for the people in Africa, so it seemed appropriate! We bought the piggy bank for Aaron to give to him for his birthday, but I don’t know how long he’ll be able to keep the secret – although I think he’s already forgotten about it!