Spanish

Emily wants to learn Spanish, in fact, she wants to learn Spanish so much, that she's teaching herself!
I have always been totally useless at languages, I have vivid memories of looking aghast at the women at the front of my class shouting at me in French. What did she say? I still don't know, but it obviously wasn't a compliment. It wasn't an occasional occurrence either, it happened twice weekly...
So as you can imagine, Emilys announcement about wishing to learn Spanish wasn't met with the enthusiasm apparently appropriate to a Home Educating Mum.

Thank goodness for online resources.

Learn to sign Week

We've been taking part in "Learn to Sign Week" reminding ourselves of some basic BSL. Emily and I have been signing together since she was a baby, but in the busy social whirl of a Home Educated 6 year old, it's one of those things that has been forgotten. It was good to spend time reminding ourselves of the basics, hopefully it's something that we'll do a little more regularly now.
In the past we have found it very useful to be able to communicate without speech at busy parks, it saves on the shouting!

Colours
Weather
Dictionary

National Poetry Day

We have spent some time reading and listening to poetry today.
This was Emilys favourite:

Macavity the Mystery Cat