80/20

Is it just mine or are all siblings nicer to each other when they don't think a parent is watching?

It was all quiet in our school room late this morning.  I knew that Samantha had finished her 'official' work for the day so assumed she was in there drawing as usual.  I wander on in and was so shocked I then had to stealthily sneak back out and grab my camera.
Apparently my little guy had managed to cajole his big sister into getting down the beetle game he had been wanting to play with ALL morning and also managed to get her to help him build them.  

It is times like this when I realise how lucky I am to have two such lovely kids.  Of course they have their moments, but we have around a 80/20 balance of them being nice vs being horrible to each other (depending on the day of course).  At 5 and 3 years old I don't think I can really ask much more than that :)

Our school day - 
I would like to now introduce our friends H & I, and welcome them on to our Coconut tree.  We have been doing this a while, but for reference to this new blog this is based on the book 'Chicka Chicka, Boom Boom' by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault.  If you have a preschooler and don't have this book, then get it!  My children love it.  It is based on the idea of the alphabet all climbing up a coconut tree and is such a lovely way to learn the letters of the alphabet.  Here are my monkeys adding their letters to our tree (they get to do this once we have learned to write, read and sound out each letter).  This is now done more for Anthony's benefit, but I try and do a letter a week with them both.

Samantha has now completed Lesson 5 in our reading book (after we had to start over due to the glandular fever and taking a break), and was then able to do a whole lesson from reading eggs with very little instruction from me.  It is great to see the progress she is making.  It gives me confidence in the choices we have made for her.  


And now for the really important stuff!  Christmas has come to our house  - I LOVE CHRISTMAS! I love it so much that I will post about it.....a little later.

We are now off to 'socialise' and have an adventure at the Library :)
 
Sterryn