After a week of illness and disruption, the children were both back in school for a full week last week.
We’ve been lateral flow testing regularly and this seems to just be a seasonal cold that’s hanging around for a bit, but it really is still lingering.
So the last week has been a pretty quiet, uneventful one. Other than drama class after school on Monday we’ve not done a huge amount outside the normal routine of school, home, dinner, bed.
The weekend was a quiet one too, mainly consisting of pottering at home, getting homework done, and finding new programmes on Disney+ to watch.
Rhys has been given the option with his maths homework to either do a page of his workbook or a couple of sessions on The Maths Factor. The interactive nature of The Maths Factor really works for him so he’s chosen to do that for the last few weeks.
We’ve been big fans of it for a while, using it loads during the school closures to keep the children engaged with maths while they were at home. So I love the fact that Rhys now has the option to do it through school as well.
Nerys still has a workbook that she brings home each week for her maths, as well as a book to read with us and some spellings to learn.
She thought at first that she’d been moved down a group with her reading when she saw the book she’d been given for this week, because it was quite small and looked like the kind of thing she used to be given about a year ago.
As it turns out, it was a great lesson in not judging a book by its cover, because it was really quite challenging! It was a book on Hector Berlioz and was full of French place names and musical terminology that I had to look up because I wasn’t quite sure what it all meant.
Do your children bring books home from school to read? Do they tend to be fiction or non-fiction?
