But we are managing. Kids are following through the timetable and juggling both work and homeschooling seems to be going fine (touchwood). Except from studying, the kids have been cooking proper dinners (sometimes dinner is ready when I come home work), they are becoming responsible around the house by tidying after them more than before ( although we still have a long way to go) and we are spending more time together. There's no rush to be anywhere. There's no pressure to do certain things on certain days. Time has slowed and we are enjoying our time as a family more.
What have we been doing except studying?:
- Food survey - the kids raided the kitchen and worked together to come up with the types of food we have and made a very impressive presentation including tally and pie charts, bar graphs and pictures. This tied up with what they were learning at school in science. It also involved ICT and maths skills
- Museum project - I'm quite excited about this one and see what the kids come up. This is a long term project. They have to design and build their own museum. They are so involved in it, its amazing to hear the facts being thrown at you. i can't wait to see the end product.
- We made our own sand using 8 cups of plain flour and 1 cup of baby oil so Mahi was more excited to play with sand
- Chalk art - we coloured our brick wall with chalk and left positive messages
- British Science Week - since it was British science week last week, we did an experiment. It was very easy and simple. A test to see who was a super taster (i.e detect bitter tastes better). You have to coat 1/3 of your tongue with food colouring and using a hole-punched paper, put it on your tongue and count how many taste buds you can see in the hole. For the results, go to british science week website to download activity packs! Lucky has been research about Tamil women who achieved something in their STEM jobs.
- Since Easter is upon us, we have been putting up some play of the events leading up to Easter. Its great to see their creativity coming through. We also made easter chicks made up of eggs cartoons. The idea is to fill some with chocolate and use it for my easter egg hunt.
- Advertisements - Mahi came with a brilliant idea to make ads. So he came up with a product and along with this sister made a very funny ad to promote his 'Godzilla Energy Drink'.
- We had movie nights inside our home-made tent.
- I taught them how to basic stitching and seeing buttons.
- Mahi has trouble tying his shoelaces and so I taught him. Laksha has trouble braiding her own hair so I've been helping her with that
- Art - i mean ignoring the fact that Mahi draws every single second he is free, they also do paint by numbers. Noel Fielding does #noelsartclub on twitter every saturday between 3-5 asking everyone to draw based on a theme he picks. Mahi was so thrilled to see his drawing on twitter and people liking, retweeting and commenting on it!
For my entertainment because if Mummy is not looked after then the world will fall apart :
- Learning new hairstyles. When Lucky was younger, I loved doing her hair. But then since school run and weekend has become so hectic with 2 kids, i've never had time to try out new hairstyles.
- Watching more movies and series
- Talking with friends and families
- Repairing earrings that I needed some love and saying a very hard goodbye to others
I hope you are surviving and used to the new 'normal'.
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