In which we catch up on last week

Last week, Hannah was probably as ill as she has ever been in her life! We've been lucky (or  she has a very robust immune system due to full-term breastfeeding and decent exposure to dirt) and, other than colds she has had a real illness only three times in her life (one stomach bug, one throat infection and very mild chickenpox if you're interested). She had a coldy virus last week that developed into sinusitis. DH is sucsceptible to sinus trouble and it is so unpleasant. Poor child spent a week just lying on the sofa with a vile headache, sometimes in so much pain she could barely move her head.

She was finally well enough by Friday to go to her grandmother's to celebrate Eid-ul-Adha with the rest of the family, but wasn't well enough till today to do the work we had planned about it. Actually, it was last year's work that we just didn't get round to then. I'd printed off a lapbook from someone's blog  but it was just a few things to stick into a folder, nothing required any actual work, so Hannah chose to stick it into her exercise book for Religion and Philosophy and write her own explanations underneath each picture as I read to her from a book about Hajj. She was quite fired up about going to Mecca when she is older.

We also did some work on time as this seems to be something she forgets on a regular basis. I think she can tell the time and mostly she can, but she seems to get very muddled all over again on a regular basis. So we went over it again and for the moment, it seems to have sunk in! We might spend a bit more time on it tomorrow though just to reinforce it.

She whizzed through a couple of pages of literacy tests (oops, almost typed "testes" there...I know testing is bollocks but still!) and ran into a couple of words she didn't know so practiced looking them up in a dictionary, which is another, useful for life in general, skill, like time-telling, that seems not to stick in her brain and needs frequent re-visiting.

After all that, we watched Saturday's Merlin and talked about story structure, went to the post office and supermarket. Time to relax...well time for Hannah to relax, time for me to make fajitas for dinner!