General
Elliott was good after school today and said at school he and Adam had got on really well.
Activities
After school Elliott went swimming and did really well. After we got home he finished his noun homework and played with Ninja Turtles. Then just before bath time he got out some bongo drums, a recorder and his guitar and we both played different combinations of instruments together. After his bath he read some of his "Doctor, Doctor" school book which is full of jokes and then we watched a some You Tube videos about Canada as part of his home learning.
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Monday, 26 January 2015
New Street Dance moves
General
Elliott was good after school today and said he'd had a good day at school and had baked potato with beans for lunch.
Activities
After school I picked Elliott up from Street Dance and he showed me some excellent new moves he'd learnt. We headed off to ASDA where Elliott changed to get ready for football training and we had some tea. Then it was off to football training and Panthers practiced dribbling and shooting before a quick game against Panthers which ended 0-0 with Elliott playing on the right wing. After football training Andrea picked Elliott up and he had a bath and went to bed with no problems as I went to the keeping children safe online session at the Family Centre. This was quite interesting and the most useful part was instructions which tell you how to make different devices safe for use online which I'll email over when it's emailed to me.
Elliott was good after school today and said he'd had a good day at school and had baked potato with beans for lunch.
Activities
After school I picked Elliott up from Street Dance and he showed me some excellent new moves he'd learnt. We headed off to ASDA where Elliott changed to get ready for football training and we had some tea. Then it was off to football training and Panthers practiced dribbling and shooting before a quick game against Panthers which ended 0-0 with Elliott playing on the right wing. After football training Andrea picked Elliott up and he had a bath and went to bed with no problems as I went to the keeping children safe online session at the Family Centre. This was quite interesting and the most useful part was instructions which tell you how to make different devices safe for use online which I'll email over when it's emailed to me.
Sunday, 25 January 2015
Minecraft
General
Elliott was mainly good today. He did get a bit grumpy before homework but after he'd finished his homework we talked about how it took him less time to do the homework than he was grumpy for about doing the homework.
Activities
In the morning we had a lazy time watching ninja turtles and Ben 10, playing Minecraft and building a machine with Lego and he also did almost all of his homework (identifying nouns which he was really good at and did quickly). We had sausages, mash, broccoli and peas for lunch and he had his 4 peas and broccoli with minimal fuss (although he didn't eat all his mash as he said it wasn't as nice as his school lunch mash).
After lunch we went to Monkey Mates and he had a great time running around and was very sweaty by the time we left. On the way home we popped into Andrea's Mum and Dad's house to see Harry and Jack Jenkins again and watched the end of ET with them before Elliott showed them Grimlock and his new blue calcite stone from the museum yesterday. After we got home Elliott finished building a house for me in Minecraft before he had melted cheese on toast with ham for tea. Then it was bath time and after his bath before bed time he read some more of his Jack Stalwart book and we looked up facts about Cannada on the iPad for home learning.
Elliott was mainly good today. He did get a bit grumpy before homework but after he'd finished his homework we talked about how it took him less time to do the homework than he was grumpy for about doing the homework.
Activities
In the morning we had a lazy time watching ninja turtles and Ben 10, playing Minecraft and building a machine with Lego and he also did almost all of his homework (identifying nouns which he was really good at and did quickly). We had sausages, mash, broccoli and peas for lunch and he had his 4 peas and broccoli with minimal fuss (although he didn't eat all his mash as he said it wasn't as nice as his school lunch mash).
After lunch we went to Monkey Mates and he had a great time running around and was very sweaty by the time we left. On the way home we popped into Andrea's Mum and Dad's house to see Harry and Jack Jenkins again and watched the end of ET with them before Elliott showed them Grimlock and his new blue calcite stone from the museum yesterday. After we got home Elliott finished building a house for me in Minecraft before he had melted cheese on toast with ham for tea. Then it was bath time and after his bath before bed time he read some more of his Jack Stalwart book and we looked up facts about Cannada on the iPad for home learning.
Saturday, 24 January 2015
Oxford Museum of Natural History
General
Elliott was really good today even though it was quite a busy day and also involved quite a lot of walking.
Activities
Football in the morning wasn't the best game of the season and I thought Panthers on a better day would have won, but I thought Elliott was as good as ever at the back and thoroughly deserved his man of the match award - number 4 of the season. Having said that I also thought Jackdip was great at making sure everyone got a decent run out and not focusing too much on the result:
After football we headed for Oxford via McDonalds for lunch (Elliott had a nuggets happy meal).
When we got to Oxford we caught the park and ride in to the town centre and then walked to the Natural History museum where we met up with Harry and Jack Jenkins and Izzy and Edward (Izzy is Andrea's god daughter). The museum was really good and had lots of dinosaur and animal skeletons in a smallish space, so was easy to get round:
There was also lots of fossils, rocks and stuffed animals that everyone was allowed to touch:
All in all it was really good fun for all of us:
There was also another museum in the same building called the Pitt Rivers museum that had a lot of historical artefacts from lots of different places in the world and we had a quick look around this but it was a bit dark and all the items were crowded together so we didn't stay long. There were some interesting things to see there though including some real life shrunken heads and a huge totem pole.
After the museums we said goodbye to everyone and on our way out we bought some blue calcite from the museum gift shop because it looks like the same crystals as Diamond Head uses in Ben 10. Then we headed back to Oxford town centre and caught the park and ride back to the car. After we got home Elliott had ham and cheese on toast for his tea before bath time. After his bath he read Chapters 3 and 4 of "Captain Comet and the Purple Planet" and then watched some Ben 10 on the iPad before a smooth bed time.
Elliott was really good today even though it was quite a busy day and also involved quite a lot of walking.
Activities
Football in the morning wasn't the best game of the season and I thought Panthers on a better day would have won, but I thought Elliott was as good as ever at the back and thoroughly deserved his man of the match award - number 4 of the season. Having said that I also thought Jackdip was great at making sure everyone got a decent run out and not focusing too much on the result:
After football we headed for Oxford via McDonalds for lunch (Elliott had a nuggets happy meal).
When we got to Oxford we caught the park and ride in to the town centre and then walked to the Natural History museum where we met up with Harry and Jack Jenkins and Izzy and Edward (Izzy is Andrea's god daughter). The museum was really good and had lots of dinosaur and animal skeletons in a smallish space, so was easy to get round:
There was also lots of fossils, rocks and stuffed animals that everyone was allowed to touch:
All in all it was really good fun for all of us:
There was also another museum in the same building called the Pitt Rivers museum that had a lot of historical artefacts from lots of different places in the world and we had a quick look around this but it was a bit dark and all the items were crowded together so we didn't stay long. There were some interesting things to see there though including some real life shrunken heads and a huge totem pole.
After the museums we said goodbye to everyone and on our way out we bought some blue calcite from the museum gift shop because it looks like the same crystals as Diamond Head uses in Ben 10. Then we headed back to Oxford town centre and caught the park and ride back to the car. After we got home Elliott had ham and cheese on toast for his tea before bath time. After his bath he read Chapters 3 and 4 of "Captain Comet and the Purple Planet" and then watched some Ben 10 on the iPad before a smooth bed time.
Friday, 23 January 2015
Tea with Harry and Jack Jenkins
General
Elliott was good after school and said he had a good day. He hadn't remembered to bring his uniform and Woodley Wanderers Panthers football kit outside with him but we did manage to get in to the school and pick them up and he promised he'd try and remember next week.
Activities
I got to school a little early so was able to watch a bit of after school football club which looked really good. It looked a little more relaxed than his Woodley Wanderers football which I thought was a nice alternative. After football we went to Harry and Jack Jenkins house for tea as Andrea is babysitting them while their parents are away. We had pizza for tea and a lot of fun. At once point Elliott showed Harry his street dance moves while Harry showed Elliott his gymnastics moves and then they both tried each others moves. After tea we headed home and on the way stopped off to buy some toothpaste and he chose two Lypsals for his mouth - one for his book bag for school and one for home. He put his home version on with no problem and said he thought it would be ok to use at school so it's in his book bag. Then it was home for bath time and some Ben 10 on the iPad before bed time.
Elliott was good after school and said he had a good day. He hadn't remembered to bring his uniform and Woodley Wanderers Panthers football kit outside with him but we did manage to get in to the school and pick them up and he promised he'd try and remember next week.
Activities
I got to school a little early so was able to watch a bit of after school football club which looked really good. It looked a little more relaxed than his Woodley Wanderers football which I thought was a nice alternative. After football we went to Harry and Jack Jenkins house for tea as Andrea is babysitting them while their parents are away. We had pizza for tea and a lot of fun. At once point Elliott showed Harry his street dance moves while Harry showed Elliott his gymnastics moves and then they both tried each others moves. After tea we headed home and on the way stopped off to buy some toothpaste and he chose two Lypsals for his mouth - one for his book bag for school and one for home. He put his home version on with no problem and said he thought it would be ok to use at school so it's in his book bag. Then it was home for bath time and some Ben 10 on the iPad before bed time.
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