This week in pictures:
I happened upon this window display at a local pet store while waiting for my fish and chips order last weekend. The toy twigs made me smile deeply.
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It was a work week so here’s a scene from my desk. I love my The Body Shop Hemp Hand Cream so much I can’t let any of it go to waste, hence the cut up tube.
Speaking of work, we honoured our nurses at the hospital this week. I am so lucky to be working with such a caring, fun and supportive group. Thank you for all that you give and do.
Master SSG’s favourite snack at the moment are these jam cookies. They’re from a cafe down the road from work. Each cookie isn’t much smaller than the little guy’s head. But he manages to polish a whole cookie off ahead of a full dinner on school nights.
Our household’s journey of discovery into the world of homemade slime continues this week with a foray into the world of slime mix kits. A bit exxy but the results are impressive. More importantly, the floorboards and kitchen benchtops survived unscathed.
Spelling practice. Because life goes on despite the virus…
May I get on my soapbox for just one moment? Arghhhhh….. What is wrong with sounding out words by their syllables as you learn to write them? There comes a point, I think, when learning by sight just isn’t sustainable. Words become too complicated and memorizing by sight just wastes too much brain space as far as I’m concerned.
As much as many children love the way spelling and vocabulary is now taught using fun apps who present learning as games, that’s not all there is to it. The words are often flashed so briefly on the screen that you don’t have time to get to ‘know’ the word and determine if it looks like a word you might already know and hence will be less ‘scared’ of learning the new word. In short, I am a fan of pattern recognition, application and building on an existing knowledge base.
I am sitting here writing to you as a passionate believer in sounding out syllables and writing words out to learn them. I have no quality evidence base to support my belief, I haven’t reviewed the current literature and I’m also not the partner of someone famous but I have found my voice and I’m determined to use it.
Thanks for reading.
This is my snap of the week. Driving into the sunset on the last day of work for a week. This is that last right turn I need to take before I hit the bridge and then tunnel for a week of sleep-ins back home sweet home.
These were the choices for dinner last night.
Chargrill Charlie’s is as close as I’ll get to the salad bars I frequent stateside. It’s May and May as been Destination USA for me for as long as I can remember…. May we all regroup, rebound and recover from this shocking year and take to the skies stronger, wiser and healthier next year.
Wishing you a lovely week ahead.
It’s exciting but also a little daunting ’emerging’ from isolation like this, isn’t it?
