Sometimes I get rather down about the amount of mess and clutter that there is in our house, when A is away (as he has been quite a lot lately - he's home tomorrow after 4 nights away) it tends to be worse, since his mess tolerance threshold is lower than mine. Other times, if it's the right sort of 'stuff' that's spread over the kitchen table, books about the human body for example, it does seem that it can be very conducive to learning. And it's that sort of mess at the moment!
K has been looking at the books again, including our Human Body - A Children's Encyclopedia. We've also got a small child-sized skeleton print out in pieces on the floor, which M has put together but we haven't got round to sticking it on to the big card I have got ready yet.
We also had a look at this website, which we all found really interesting, particularly the sections on the heart. While looking at the part about the digestive tract and reading bits aloud to the girls, K announced (correctly!) that the alimentary canal is about 4 times as long as we are, as she'd read that in one of the books on the table earlier on.
Other than the body, K & M had a friend, Z, round to play for a while this afternoon. Among other things they played The Game of Life and the only problem (apart from a fairly easily resolved hiccough when M didn't want to play that, but decided she would if she could be on Z's team, which Z was happy with) was when Z's mum came to pick her up and K & M didn't want her to go!
This evening I had to go out for a meeting and happened to mention to S (who we saw on Monday) that we were looking at the human body at the moment and, having given her a lift home, came home myself with a felt skeleton with labels and a small perspex body with innards that you can remove and replace for us to borrow! And speaking of felt, I'm wondering if K and/or M might fancy the idea of making their own version of this, or I might just do it myself!
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