M wasn't happy again with me today. This time it was because I wouldn't take her to the park on the way home from the shops. It was, however, brass monkeys out there and neither K nor I was keen on the idea, to put it mildly.
We did, however, read quite a lot more Harry Potter and we're nearly half way through the last book now. I'm starting to think about what we might read together next, although K has already said she wants me to start again with book one as soon as we finish! I've said if she wants them again, she can read them to herself.
In a round-about way we did a bit more on our ongoing topic of the human body. We managed to get onto the topic of baldness, via Kingsley Shacklebolt (a Harry Potter character, who is bald) and from there to alopecia. K then asked the question: Do people with alopecia lose the hair from inside their nose? So we looked on the computer and found out that in some cases, yes they do. In fact it is only in these cases that alopecia has a direct impact (other than the stress it would undoubtedly cause) on health, since the hairs in the nose and ears and eyelashes are part of our bodies' defences system.
In other news, K & M have gone into production of pigmy puffs, which are of course miniature puffskeins, small fluffy animals that Fred & George sell in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.
Lovely post! It's great to read about real learning happening like that. If only it was this way in schools.
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