Lovely!! The end is in sight- don't you just love those first few moments of sun every year-you can almost feel your petals unfurling in the sunshine. I had been working them all quite hard though.....actually no... I'm not taking that....I was working quite hard and they came and joined in and were really helpful. We were picking up chunks of old render-trying to clear the flower beds in the hope that some of the perennials might survive and trying to get rid of as much as possible into the builders skip before it disappears (hopefully today). The scaffolding went yesterday..... Just need some guttering doing now

Anyway kids were rewarded for their help with lunch outside followed by ICE CREAM- the first of the year (read the last handful kicking about in the bottom of the freezer).

FI dancing along to the computer! (Green Balloon Song Time- mummy often dances too).
We do use computers in our approach to HEing - which is heading towards an unschooling principle (with a little suggestion and strewing) not fully self regulated usage- but then the needs to share as a family require a little adult negotiation to help the shrieking along! They use a fair amount of cBeebies- which I am quite happy for them to negotiate their way around- sometimes wish it wasn't Quite so easy to get to iPlayer though. Then the bigger two use Education City and Reading Eggs- sometimes one is more popular than the other- sometimes with me sitting with them, sometimes hovering in the background.

We have just invested in an iPad- so are playing with apps and the way for the children to get some mileage from this too (avoiding out and out games at the moment)- so far we have added a drawing pad (picture below is SJ astrosaur 'Tank Tank'- The Seas of Doom) and some time telling and fine co-ordination activities. They also have some classics like Hangman, Connect4, picture sudoku and some basic matching games. We'll see how this goes...... Am definitely learning that everything is flexible with HE and approach that works one minute -has to be adapted the next time....