More of the same and eggs for tea.

M is still rather keen on her Lego Creator Dinosaur set at the moment and over the last few days has assembled, dissembled and reassembled the various alternative creatures (I can't say dinosaurs, because one of them is a pterosaur) several times.

Tyrannosaur

Sauropod

Pterosaur

Both girls have also been listening to various story cds, along with the many Famous Five ones we've had from the library, the Roald Dahl ones we have on long-term loan from a friend have made a reappearance along with a different version of Matilda from the one we have, which K got from the library.

Listening to Matilda

K & I found La Marseillaise on youtube today because she asked to -I hadn't realised just how gruesome the lyrics are!!  We quickly moved on to looking at more of our national anthem and from there, to the monarchy, and why the Saxe-Coburg Gotha's became the Windsors and somehow then to this Compound Machine Activity which both K & M had a go at.

I'm not sure what brought it to mind, but I remembered today that first K and subsequently M decided in January that one of their goals for the year was to learn to cook (as opposed to bake) and we haven't really done much towards that.  So today I said it was eggs for tea and they could choose how they wanted them and cook them.

M went for scrambled

She said it was okay, but not as good as mine.

K had boiled

M in particular was also very keen to slice her own bread for toast without my help and K cut hers too.

I'm chuckling about this, thinking what my dad would make of this.  He gets rather stressed when bread is cut anything other than extremely straight!