See, it is hard to teach some people sometimes when either basic knowledge is lacking and/or they are dopes.

Presenting Boss with this sheet

Covering the sounds "ee" and "or" I asked him, "now what sound does a donkey make?" - "oink". Oink. Oink. FFS Who TEACHES these people. My one saving grace was Jaws who chimed (quoting his favourite book "Cock a Moo moo") "DAT'S NOT RIGHT ONLY PIGS GO 'OINK'". Is it me? No it can't be because my toddler has a clue.

So anyway we've covered the Jolly Phonics sound sheets now. Wasn't in a particular hurry and we've been doing lots of word reading in between.

Plenty of drawing going on

Some kind of "pliosaur eating some kind of nautaloid, mummy"

Jaws'

Lots of drawing-as-gifts-to-mummy-and-attempted-word-writing going on

This is a nice one. I won't show you the one of the dinosaur urinating that he made me...

Jaws doing lots of small circles lately. Faces? Think so, sometimes

Then we've been playing with paint and blowing paint all over the place with straws. Big hit as you can imagine - a valid excuse to make a mess always a big hit here.

Tracks in the forest

Then we've been playing with air drying clay

Jaws'

Boss' alien things

I went for the girly pinch pot option

THEN I got mail and gifted from the Holy Land. Honestly, I don't know what I do to deserve these good friends.

Love those stamps :D

And we've basically been bonding over play and books and enjoying the LIGHT oh the light that has been streaming back into our lives.

"Kaba, Mummy! Kaba!"

"And DER"

Masha'allah

xx