Cinema and sewing and competitions.

This week is National Schools' Film Week, which we've been enjoying for the past few years.  This year they wanted to change the rules to allow only groups of 10 or more, but changed their minds following some vigourous feedback from home edders.  We met up with a couple of dozen other home edders to see Brave, a film which both of my girls had been very keen to see! 

Following two mornings when we'd (particularly K on Monday) been cutting it fine getting up, dressed, breakfasted and ready to get out for morning events, this morning K was already up and had eaten breakfast (with Daddy) and was doing sewing when I put my head round her door!  Apart from a go on the computer with Moshi Monsters, she has been sewing pretty much all day.

K concentrating on her sewing.

It was a kit that she was given yesterday as a late birthday present, and she started it last night instead of reading in bed.

By bedtime this evening she'd finished!

While K was busy with her sewing, M was studying her Puffin Post, looking at the competitions and deciding which she wanted to enter and getting cracking.  She has already entered an easy quick question about Roald Dahl online (doing an online search to find out when his birthday was) and I've printed off a colouring sheet for another one.  The thing that M spent most time on was making a model out of lego, which we then photographed and sent in by email.  I am not allowed to say what she made or post the photo yet, in case her idea is stolen, but will do so after the competition deadline, which is 4th January (if I remember).  She has also started work on a poem for another competition, which involves taking a photo and writing a poem about the subject in it.  She came  up with the poem pretty quickly and we talked about writing a first draft and then trying to improve on it before coming up with a final version.