Another thing to practice

Yesterday when i picked evie up from school, her teacher told me that evie was doing something on the computer and said that she was having trouble as she didnt know where the letters on the keys were.  We should practice at home, so i askes her if there were any websites she vould recommend and sge said that all of the websires were on the year 1 page on jer schools website.

So after we had done reading and writing we then switched on the laptop, there was only one non maths website on the page and it needed a newer version of adobe flash and james didnt want me downloading it.

So i did a search for year 1 wordgames and we found one game that evie enjoyed where you have to join words together.

Its funny about evie not knowimg where the letters are as she can send text mwssages on both mine and james phones and they both have qwerty keyboards.

Perhaps i should get her to practice sending text messages too.

So.that will be reading, writing, laptop and texting :)

what to watch

As we are getting our new sky+ HD box, supposedly early this week I will have to decide what to watch and what to leave.

I have been making sure I watch (on the day it is shown) The Biggest Loser Australia, and Coronation Street, and Dancing On Ice.

I will make sure I watch NCIS and Bull too.

Thinking about it I will delete (because of all of the backstabbing (and its not as good (in my opinion)) as the original concept Coach Trip: Road to Tenerife.

I have a few other things in there as well.

Most of the programmes are Evies so we have told her that when we get the new box she wont be able to watch them until we download or record them again.

LOL I think the backlash from it when it happens will be heard by Eileen and Kirt and Jules :)

to q or not to q

For the past few months (since August at the latest) our sky+HD box has been playing up...

...in an attempt to save money I have been putting off the inevitable and either upgrade or get a new sky+HD box...

Yesterday I thought our box had finally given up the ghost as it wasnt letting us watch anything recorded or get on demand to download programmes (it was at least letting us watch live tv so that kept Evie happy).

So I rang sky and the message said to download the my sky app, I then was put through to someone and I explained the issue and I was told that because I am a diamond customer (I have been with them for 18+  years we are entitled to a new Sky Q box, I had already looked at the price and saw that it was £199 (even without the multiscreen package) and that was too much for us, so I was really pleased, he told me that I should download the app and book it through there.

So I went into the app but it still had the £199 one off payment, so I did the chat thing with them and after several hours (I kid you not) they finally told me that the deal was only if you had the multiscreen package!

As we dont need that I then called sky again to get us sorted.

I called again and was given the various options....

....I can either pay £65 and have an engineer come to try and repair the box or £30 and they send us a brand new box.

I have opted for the brand new box being sent in the post, and we have to fit it (the guy told me you just have to plug it in).

Im hoping that James will do it when he gets home from work :)

We have since unplugged the sky box for at least 5 minutes plugged it back in again and we can now watch recorded programmes and download programmes, so hopefully it will hold out until the box arrives next week

trees and favourite things

After saying that she didnt want me to stay with her at school yesterday morning Evie was skipping to school so must have been happy :)

After watching her walk across the playground to her classroom I went to the school office to sign in and collect my "visitor" badge.

I then went to the classroom.

The first thing I did was check that the kids whose day it was to change books had read their books twice (and most of them had).

I then had to file away some work that the kids had written about their favourite things...

...when I got to Evies I read hers and she said "I have a bunee and a tin and if I lost them I would be sad", I asked her after if anyone helped her with her writing and she said that she did it all by herself :)

The kids then had to write a story about The Lighthouse Keepers Catastrophe and when they had done an acceptable amount they could them come over to where I was sitting...

...I had to help them draw a silhouette of half a tree with branches (on black paper with a white pencil) and then help them cut it out.

After morning break time the kids did number bonds and the kids who had finished their maths could then do their tree.

In total I ended up doing that with 6 kids (Evie said that she had done her one in the afternoon without branches) one kid Z cut off his branches and when I asked him if he wanted to do it again he said no and as it was close to lunchtime I didnt push it.

Evie was a bit upset after morning break and when I was leaving and she said that it was because she missed James.

Evie even got a hug from a dinnerlady  mid day assistant that I thought was nice :)

I kissed Evie goodbye signed out and then headed home.

when I picked her up at home time she said that she liked me being there and I dont have to wear my pretend invisible bag next time so thats good :)

I had a really good time adn am looking forward to doing it again next week :)

pretend invisible bag

This morning I will be helping out in Evies class :)

She doesnt want me to help out, se just wants me to go home after I have dropped her off!

So I told her that I have to go in as I have made a promise to Miss B...

...as she was crying at this point and saying that she didnt want to see me in class, I asked her if it would be ok for me to come in if I wore a pretend invisible bag over my head :)

That sold it, and she likes the idea :) but she wants me to use pretend invisible cardboard

I have told her that you shouldnt really put bags over your head.

Christmas is well and truly over

Christmas is now well and truly over...

..the christmas tree has been taken down

Evie is back to school (albeit a nice short first week back to ease them back in) :)

Tap dancing started again today

and James goes back to work tomorrow

birthday christmas and new year

First we had breakfast with Santa

Evies breakfast with mine and James tea and coffee

high 5 santa

she decorated a gingerbread man

Evies 6th birthday, and birthday party

Evie had her face painted like a unicorn

her birthday cake

Chistmas was good, Evie had loads of presents :)

and New Year was ok too.

Evie goes back to school on Thursday and James goes back to work next week.

Happy New Year! :)