Friday Fun

Yesterday was a good day for Chipmunk.

He got a new reading record book,so we can start to fill that up with all those many,many books Chipmunk reads on a daily basis.

He also got sent to the head teacher for a sticker because of his good literacy work.

He said he had wrote a good piece of work about 

Goldilocks I got a text home saying:

"Chipmunk has done some EXCELLENT work in literacy today - I'm really proud of him!" Mrs A.

I was so proud about this!And when I picked Chipmunk up from school the head teacher came and had a word with me just to say how proud she was of Chipmunk!

That is brilliant to hear!

And to top the good school day off,Chipmunks class won 

Eco Class of the week.

Chipmunk has been bursting to win this award and so he was extremely happy to tell me that they had won.

They keep the trophy for a week in their classroom.

We then went to karate which he enjoyed and then went to watch his friend swim.

Chipmunk has been wanting to do this for ages and we were well impressed with his friends swimming.

So a lovely day and a great start to the weekend.

 School Days

Very soon my Sharky leaves school.

How can this be!

A whole chapter of his life gone!

It only seems such a short time ago that he was starting school and now his school days are coming to a close.

Iam quite shocked by this.How did time go so quickly!

I obviously have noticed that he is in his last school year but as the day approaches it just seems so final

And I've been remembering just how far Sharky has come.

So here are my Sharky school memories.

*  Your start to school was traumatic ,truly it was.

You cried & cried & we felt terrible leaving you.

You carried on screaming for 4 weeks and 2 days,it was horrid.

You started on the last half term of summer and you was the only one out of the whole morning nursery to leave,so you didn't go with any friends,this did not help at all.

You went into a year 1/reception class.It was a boisterous class,they had been together for a year,I think you didn't know what had hit you.

You had 6 weeks of reception class and then it was the summer break and next was year 1.

You always say now that you thought all school years went so quick,after just doing 6 weeks in reception!

*****

When you started junior school you got in such mischief!

'Ink pen splats on the new library wall.

Stink spray sprayed in class'

You was a high spirited youngster for sure!

I remember how worried I was when you went on the five day stay to Ambleside.

You came back home with a chipped tooth but otherwise safe and sound

You were one of the first kids in juniors to have long hair,

I remember you saying that you were the only 'mophead' in the school.

Think you startd a trend there!

I remember you diving out of school and jumping in puddles,massive puddles,

remember that one on the horses field that you literally rolled in?!

You always were a mucky kid!

And this post describes you to a tee  The Pole

*****

And then it was on to comp where you settled really well.

All your school reports say how hard you try at school and I'm always impressed at your parents evenings by your teachers comments.

You went to Disneyland Paris with school last year

You are planning to go to 6th form so you are not entirely finished with school and I'm quite pleased about that.

No more school uniform tho!I must remember to get a photo of you in that!

End of a era!"

 2 Minute Memories

 Today after breakfast Chipmunk went outside to play football.

It was 8am,a busy time,but I thought he could have a bit of a play.

And he so loved it!

As I was bustling around in the kitchen I was smiling as I heard him shouting to himself.

When I called him in I couldn't stop smirking.

He was dressed in a pyjama top,his faithful cap,boxers and trainers!

He did look a sight!

I saw a little boy who was happy on a school day tho and that nice memory has stayed with me all day!

And it wasn't even raining!!!

2 minute memories

 Mousie Brown

Ever heard the nursery poem Mousie Brown?

Well at the moment I hear it a lot,a very lot!

It started ages ago at nursery when my friend swapped the words to the rhyme and chose a different place for grandma to go.

This is the original rhyme

"Up the tall white candle stick crept little Mousie Brown.

Right to the top but he couldn't get back down.

So he called for his grandma

"Grandma!Grandma!"

But grandma was in town

So he curled himself into a ball

And rolled himself right down."

My friend used to say Tesco instead of town and then it went to Asda and Morrisons.

And then we started to let the children chose where grandma was going.

Their ideas were fantastic!We have had

Rapunzels Tower

Pinochios House

Peppa Pigs House

Ariel's House

And it has become my groups absolutely favourite song.

I have to limit it to two goes everyday or we would never sing anything different!

And the children rack their brains to come up with different ideas,just to see the concentration on their faces as they think of new ideas is great.

So I introduced the rhyme to Chipmunk and hey presto he too loves it!

Every day when we walk to school we have to say it all the way there!

And the places Chipmunk makes grandma go are very predictable!

She has visited all the MotoGp tracks ( of course )

I make grandma visit fanciful places like on top of a cloud or on spring flowers

This is something that goes from strength to strength and shows no signs of stopping.

So where would you make grandma go....

Baking Fun.

This afternoon after school Chipmunk had some happy news to tell me!His next lot of ELSA lessons were going to be focused on... wait for it.... baking!

Oh how we have waited for this news!!

Probably ever since we have known about ELSA we have wanted baking.

Me and Chipmunk!

Baking = fun! No stress,just mainly fun and you can even bring the finished articles home and that means yum!

We have endured intricate cutting,sewing,risk watch and the 

latest one is yoga.

Yes very good for core stability and flexibility but horrendously hard for Chipmunk and this has placed stress on him and therefore me.

So you can imagine our joy to find out that next half term it will be his turn to bake!

He is already planning what he will need.

His words were;

"Better get shopping!I will need a apron and a tub"

And his smile was a mile wide and you know what,so was mine!

So now there will be no more dread on a ELSA day,just a happy smiley boy and a happy smiley mum!

Chipmunk,this is going to be great!

My Little Helper

Chipmunk is becoming my little helper around the home especially when it comes to drying the dishes.

He would rather dry dishes than play!

Tonight he told me that he liked to dry dishes so that I could rest later at night rather than have to tidy all the kitchen up.

And at bedtime as he was climbing into bed I said 

''Thanks for helping me with those dishes'' and he replied

''Thats what Im here for, too help''

As you can imagine,I was well pleased with this and I do appreciate having such a thoughtful little boy.

Back to routine

So the school holidays have flown by in a flash and it's back to routine.

I didn't want this to happen really,I wanted to stay at home with the boys,having time to do whatever we wanted when we wanted.

But that's not life is it,so back to our places we all went.

For Chipmunk the week has been full.

He has had school,swimming lessons,karate lessons & a concert at the church where he goes to for church youth club.A very busy time!

At school he has enjoyed painting this week and I have loved seeing him come home all painty,he had grey paint all up his arms on Wednesday when he painted a lovely elephant.This made me smile.

He has got really muddy this week and came home today in a school sweatshirt as his trousers were absolutely plastered in mud.Apparently he fell in a puddle,it must have been some puddle coz boy was those trousers muddy.

He got pushed in a puddle yesterday and came home sock less!

Fun times!

Most days he has still manage to scooter home despite the bad weather and his balance is brill,he is doing better than I ever thought he would on his scooter,I'm so pleased I chose it for him,it is a truly used toy.Oh & the scooters grubby too ~ muddy like its owner!

The school run this week has been soggy wet!We have had to wrap up and every morning Chipmunk has arrived at school pretty wet and we only have a 5minute to school.

We've still had fun walking tho,I love walking Chipmunk to school.

So all in all a good start back to the Summer Term.