The new term at tennis is always hit and miss with N. It seems he’s now playing tennis three times a week at the moment. On Mondays at after school tennis club, on Fridays at the tennis club junior lessons (both with the same coach). And now on Fridays at school, it’s his class’ turn to have tennis from an external coach. N doesn’t seem too concerned about that, and there’s no other sports that he wants to try. Other… Continue Reading “Nervy start to a new tennis club term”
Ever since first playing tennis at school last year N has enjoyed the game. They have an external coach from a local club come in and do junior lessons for them, and after playing in the summer term, N was given a referral letter to play at the club. Tennis was my sport at school (before squash took over at uni and afterwards), so I’m pleased that he enjoys it so much. For a 5 year old, and thinking about… Continue Reading “Joining the tennis club and a clingy child”
I love dance. So much so that I’ve set up my dance blog to get the word going and try and encourage other people who debate about starting dance but don’t dare. My route back to dancing is a little sporadic during the summer – having a husband who works all hours 7 days a week during harvest and a 5 year old who needs babysitting, isn’t conducive to dancing twice a week. But it’s my passion and it’s great… Continue Reading “Get boys comfortable with dance – inspired by Motionhouse”
Whenever the Olympics comes around, it’s a great opportunity to encourage children into the different sporting activities, especially those more unusual ones. I love the atmosphere of the Olympics (I managed to get to see the Volleyball at London 2012), so I’d like N to get to experience a bit of it on now he’s old enough to understand it. Ok, so we can watch the sports on tv (and if I have my way it’ll be on a lot… Continue Reading “11 awesome easy kids activities for Olympic Games”
I love my fitbit and I’ve always wanted to give it to N to see how much activity he does during the day compared to me. But instead of risking him losing my Fitbit, Leapfrog sent us a Leapband to try out. N was excited as soon as I opened the parcel up. He loves wearing a watch so the Leapband went down well immediately even before he knew it spoke to him. Yes, he’s a typical child and loves… Continue Reading “Kids get active with Leapfrog Leapband”
Until last week, I’d not felt too pressured by school non-uniform dates. World book day passed pretty easily (I had a plan for Horrid Henry, but N decided he didn’t want to dress up), non-uniform days have either been pj days or just standard non-uniform. I can cope with those. Even the nativity worked out easily with my 5 minute multi character t-shirt costume! But sports week has proved the hardest. Yes, last week was National Sports Week. I didn’t… Continue Reading “The sportswear dilemma of National Sports Week”
One of the great things about children starting school is that you no longer have to answer every question they ask. I’m presuming the teachers get a lot of their questions too. But there’s also the mystery about what they learn at school. Because you can never get a complete school day run down from 5 year olds. N’s quite good at telling me what he’s been doing. Sometimes it’s sporadic, but I can prompt because the school send us… Continue Reading “Learning about health and exercise at school”
We’re back in the weekly school days update. It’s been a busy week despite it being cut a bit short due to illness, but time’s marching on quickly towards Easter. Cross Country When N told me he went to Lego club I was surprised, but not as much as him telling me he does cross country at lunch times. According to N he’s running round the field 2 lunch times a week. I asked if he went because his best… Continue Reading “School Days – cross country, croup and certificates”
I mentioned back in October that I’d started dancing again. I love to dance. As a child, I did ballet from the age of 4 to 16 when I had to give up due to having school on Saturdays, a few years of modern dance (because tap clashed with brownies – although I think I’d have been a better tap dancer than modern). Apart from school dances, a few ballroom lessons before our annual ball, and clubbing at uni, I… Continue Reading “Dance like no-one’s watching – the buzz of dance”
I mentioned a few weeks ago that friends had dragged me along to their zumba classes. Much as I loved the class, when I spotted last week that there was a new modern jive class starting up only 15 minutes drive away, I knew I had to give it a go…even though the day clashed with zumba. Sods law, but dancing was always going to win out. Before having N (right up to 8 months pregnant) I’d done 3 years… Continue Reading “The freedom of dance – digging out my modern jive dancing shoes”
