Also from netto – we dont shop there often.. was 500 grm butter for £1.. that will do for baking with.

We have finally returned our three bag fulls of books and audio tapes to the library. and bought home a couple of audio books. Story time was on, and Asha dosnt really enjoy it, so we didnt stay long.

This is going to mean that 100′s – possibly 1000′s of students are not going to be able to complete there courses, and of course the knock on of that is a. Tescos are going to find less people shopping there. b. Tutors are going to find them selves student less next year, c. well the wonderful institution which is the OU is going to have less students.

Please find attached a link to a facebook group entitled ‘Tesco – Every little doesn’t help OU students’

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=278290981649&ref=ts

I thought you might be interested to know the impact that the OU/ Tesco change of policy on clubcard…

Science

The material just goes softer and wetter... it swashy mummy and drippy!

We got some items out and watched what hapend to them in tepid water overnight

milk bottle plastic – no change.

Kitchen paper  erm.. where did that go mummy!

cardboard toilet roll, strip off.. came apart.

mummy!

Oil, food colouring, water and

Food colouring.. well it change the colour of the water.. oil added.. the oil floated and the oil sank.. Why mummy?

Bicarb of soda .. just went.

xanthan gum and oil in water  – well daddy can write this bit up but.. Look at the pics!

xanthan gum , with oil and water..

Asha had a great time. Considering we are all still coughing our guts out, it went really very well indeed!

After our rather successfull, but demading tutorial, for our welsh course, Steve and I both took it in turns to fall asleep at home. I needed it.

Asha did some maths, and puzzles on the PC. To be honest i know she did some mazes, and she did some drag and drop jigsaws. I also saw her having some books read out to her. She has really become a dab hand at using these programmes, and even the older Piglet game, she is managing to enjoy. We just need to get her to understand how to start the shutting down process a little bit better, though she is getting there!

She is using dvd’s for 5+ now. Which considering two months ago, she rarely had used a pc, and the fact that most days she still dosn’t, I am really impressed with her progress. I never mention it, and she seems to use it about twice a week.

After a couple of hours – far too much computers really.. but she did run around between games, and do forwards rolls and stuff as well, we read some poetry, from a book i had as a little one : Never wear your wellies in the house. It certainly made her laugh. We then read that classic – Everybody poos.. and we finished off with an introduction to the world of the collins childrens dictionary. She loved asking me to find words for her.. and seems to have grasped what its for. She has also taken it to bed!

I guess if I spent time recording what Asha did throughout a day, my record would be amazing. As for today, although we were out for 9.30 and not home untill 1. I know she did stories, did computing, did gymnastics and dancing. She also did reading, and imaginative play with her rocking horse and her horse on a stick – i cant rember the technical term- she also covered daddy up when he fell asleep, and helped me to clear the table after dinner. She was playing in the do room for a while, but i dont actually know what she was playing. But she is always learning, and she is always a sponge.. Education? Asha is happy, she is aware of her enviroment, and is keen on nature. What else can one want for a child?

Vicki xx

There is a general chat forum

One section for fellow OU students and there is one section which is for current home educators only.

Please ask to join this, if you are currently home schooling. Otherwise you wont have access to it!

Vicki xx

Instead we wrapped up warm, and stayed at home. Asha has done some play with her toys, watched some videos with daddy, and played on the cbeebies web site.

One of the games is to make a model village, doing point, click and drag operations with the mouse. This is the result of her first attempt of this. I am very impressed!

My First Town.

Each ginger species has a different culinary usage; for example, myoga is valued for the stem and flowers.

Myoga ginger

Garden ginger’s rhizome is the classic spice “ginger”, and may be used whole,

candied (known commonly as crystallized ginger), or dried and powdered. Other popular gingers used in cooking include cardamom and turmeric, though neither of these examples is a “true ginger” – they belong to different genera in the Zingiberaceae family.

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Now I really didn’t have a lot of faith in this little project, can you spy the sticky tape??

The intructions said. “use normal craft glue” now for me this implies use, PVA glue.

Well Foam crafts, just dont work with PVA glue! The instructions were erm.. hazy.

Well we still like the result. Just a pity I had to use double sided sticky tape to get it to work!

Eventually we got his hat and hair stuck on his head… and then we stuck him to his red body.

Sitting Proud...