Day 31: Back to (Home)School

Tuesday 21st April 2020

Weather: Warm, sunny and slightly windy.

Isabella and I started with school work first thing this morning. We're using BBC Bitesize which has lessons each day. In English we practiced using question marks, in Maths we counted forwards and backwords in 2's up to 50 and then we also had a Geography lesson which covered the 4 countries making up the UK and their capitals, continents and oceans of the world, seasons and weather.  And it was presented in such a fun way. We both really enjoyed it. Isabella also practiced spelling and read an online Oxford reading book from her current reading level. For her extras she did some German from Rosetta Stone while I did other work next to her. She's getting on so well with the German now that I can leave her to do it on her own with hardly any help needed. She asked to also try Spanish on Rosetta Stone so we did. After the second page of the first lesson she asked to go back to German and no longer complains that it is hard! It made her  realise how much German she actually already understands compared to trying a totally new language!

Clockwise from top left: Spelling, writing questions following an online lesson and reading "Things that  sting" from
Oxfordowl.co.uk

Clockwise from top left: writing a postcard following online lesson, front of postcard, German practice and Geography.

And we even did a PE session: PE with Isabella! Joe Wicks is getting a bit too much for the two of us although Andre is still doing it daily. Isabella wrote down her own PE routine for us. Video coming hopefully tomorrow!

Things we didn't get to today were practicing Afrikaans reading and writing, she wanted to practice the harmonica and cycling too but instead went rollerblading which is also something that needs practicing. She also has some nature picture we still need to create from the things she collected in the woods over the weekend. Not every day is as busy as today. Some days it just happens.

It was a very productive day. Hoping tomorrow will be the same! We also had a phone call from one of Isabella's teachers which was nice.

Today was a good day for these two together.

Starting to trust each other and becoming friends.

Tabby watching my online pilates class while I'm doing the hard work this evening.