Goodness, that year went quickly! It’s Learn Nothing Day again (and Sandra Dodd’s birthday!). Since we just got home last night, I was quite optimistic that we’d probably stay home most of today, thereby minimising all opportunities to experience something new, anything in nature, and other heinous potential learning situations.
Kai was up before 7.30am, and watched some TV. I was asleep, so I can’t know for sure if or what he learnt at that point. Then he put on Call of Duty on the Wii. And played non-stop till about 2pm. He appears to have finished the entire game, including getting past a number of levels he hadn’t completed previously, and learnt new moves. Bah! Fail!
Still. If I was to quantify the learning at this stage, I’d say it was surely minimal, right?
Then we did actually leave the house. It was a worrying trip to the supermarket – potentially fraught with learning…Kai played the iPod on the way….It’s our local supermarket, so….nothing to see there, right? Well, apparently no – we managed to find a fruit we’d never seen before – a red grapefruit. We bought it. We ate some of it when we got home…Nooooooo!!!
Then Kai decided to watch The Hobbit. Since he’s watched it numerous times before, I decided that was a fairly safe activity. I read my Game of Thrones book (yeah…I learnt all about a whole bunch of people!)…Then he asked if he could make a spear, but not any old spear, it had to have two points. I asked if it was like one in The Hobbit. Nope….he’d only gone and started reading the Book of Trolls while I was in the bedroom! One of the Trolls has a spear with two points!
Then he watched Horrible Histories. Disaster. He’s also designed and cut out some cardboard weapons, based on the one’s in Call of Duty. So. We failed. Dismally. Again. It’s only 8pm. Anything could be learnt between now and bedtime….
Anyone else do any better!?
Epic fail for us as well :)
Totally missed it and as a result did lots of learning…oh well, there’s always next year!
My kids are at school and I honestly think that they learn very little, if anything. The first thing they learnt on starting school was the word fuck, and it hasn’t improved much since then…
Hi Is!! Lovely to hear from you. Wow – the kids are all in school? Local school? How are you all – hope you are well :) We are good, we love Adelaide, although looking forward to spring! Kai is big – yes! Very! xx