Been a weird couple of days. Ben seems to have been bouncing off the walls, Eilidh is really stroppy and I'm tired...not a good combination!! I ended up threatening them with school today to which they both replied they wanted to go (not quite the response I was hoping for!) After explaining that they would not be able to play, run around, chatter and see all their Home Ed friends all day they went off the idea! We came up with a compromise of actually doing some 'proper' work at home. I think they both need a little bit more structure now so we shall see how it goes. So this afternoon they decided to watch 'Swallows and Amazons' and then go on to do a project book all about this. Well, Eilidh got on with designing and making the front page and Ben decided to draw letters with a stencil we found. He has just started being interested in making letters and drawing rather than just scribbling so it's a good start. We made a list of all the interesting things in the film like charcoal burning, fish, sailing, where the filming was done, pirates, morse code and about Arthur Ransome himself so this project could go on for a while!! We will probably try to do a little bit each day and try to get hold of the rest of the books to read.

Tomorrow we have a day out planned up at Grizedale forest with our local group so the project will have to wait for now!