More French and more other stuff!

We've been continuing with French, mostly on the subject of food.  Last night, after K & M had turned off their lights to go to sleep, K appeared at the top of the stairs to call down 'Le pain, s'il te plait Maman'.  She wasn't hungry, she just wanted to show that she could remember how to say this in French!  Today as a result, we touched on the difference between asking for 'le pain' and 'du pain'.

K & M both had birthday parties they were invited to this weekend.  They both went to Z's Laser Quest party on Friday, M really enjoyed the whole thing, while K chose not to join in, as she doesn't like the idea of shooting people, but still had a good time chatting to a new friend who didn't want to join in either.  Yesterday K went to her friend A's bowling party and had a really good time.  I had wondered if she'd know anybody other than the birthday girl, but there were two other girls she knew, one from Brownies and another who used to go to ballet.

This morning, K decided that she would come to church, but only just managed to get dressed in time, because she was doing some more of her maths workbook!  She also replied to Granny's letter inviting her to stay next month, she decided to do so by email, to which she attached a picture she had also done on the computer using Paint.

On Friday we managed to have a quick go with another Harry Potter game (a trivia quiz board game), that friends have lent us (thank you C and D!), but didn't finish it as K & M were off to the party.  Today we had another go and I thought it was quite good, but unfortunately I'm finding it difficult to balance the difficulties the K & M have of playing games like this.  M is struggling with not winning at the moment, because she perceives herself as never winning, and K finds it difficult to cope with any allowances made for M.  For example in this game we gave her another chance because she didn't realise that the book was specifically about the first Harry Potter book and gave an answer that was wrong according to the answer card, but was something that you find out about in a later book.

Finally for now.  We bought a strip of raffle tickets after church (didn't win), but M decided to use them for a little raffle of her own.  We each chose a ticket and she shut herself away in the playroom and made a prize.  I won this!

Not only pretty...

...but functional too - it's a brooch!