Knocked down but not out...

Nathan woke during the night complaining of a sore throat that by morning had progressed to fever and muscle achiness...he snoozed on and off till mid afternoon when his fever broke and he perked up again. I can't recall the last time the house was quiet for so long and had both children in it at the time!

Danielle seemed a bit lost without her playmate but found some things to do and came and showed me this picture she'd drawn. "That's you with sandflies biting you, and you're wearing warm clothes".

Then she wanted to create a house under the table and directed me to find things to help her create what she had in mind.

Danielle then went off and created a book called "The Big Book About Us" (I think she got that off Blues Clues that was on this morning). She asked for Nathan to contribute to the book - the poor fella really wasn't in the mood but drew a picture - a tiny little body lying down and he told me that was him sick lol. I did notice later though that he'd added a "Nathan running" picture and dialogue. Danielle's picture has swings, a slide, see-saw, me balancing on a ball (love the detail on the ball), a crocodile and a bumble bee.

A friend dropped a movie in for us that they both watched and enjoyed.

As Nathan started to perk up and I asked him if he wanted to play noughts and crosses. So we had fun playing that for a while. Unfortunately I'd picked up Danielle's notebook to use....oops.

I then showed Nathan a new online maths game I found over at Steph's Ordinary Life Magic (just as well for the inspiration of fellow unschoolers on days like this!). Nathan really got into it and I found when I wasn't quite available to help as he wanted (while I was cooking dinner) he managed to master a few levels he didn't think he could.

(I still get surprised at the end of a day when I've felt very uninvolved in what the kids have been doing, that learning can occur even when I take a day off myself...)