I found the dictionary on the computer desk and asked what they'd been looking up and was told that they were looking for 'whole' but couldn't find it, so rather than misspell the word they found a different way of saying what they wanted to (M's idea, as K told me this morning). When I said that 'whole' was a tricky word to look for in a dictionary, K exclaimed that she'd just remembered that it started with a 'w'.
Yesterday after Asfordby, K & M had a schooly friend, I, round for play and tea before Brownies. They had a great time together all playing Harry Potter, with a bit of Romeo and Juliet thrown in for good measure. On their way out into the garden, where they spent most of the time making the most of the good weather, K informed me about how they'd been playing the balcony scene and that she knew which page it was on in our copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare. I certainly haven't ever found it for her, so she must have done so herself at some point!
Following on from the fractions work K has been doing, I had another look in Maths for Mums & Dads and found an exercise that I thought both K & M would have no problem with, but decided to check. I showed them this list of numbers in the book and asked them to put them into order from the largest to the smallest.
901 1,001 910 99 109 190 999
Both girls were confident in their answers, so we looked at the example of an answer given by a child who hadn't yet grasped place value and talked about what she might have been thinking.
Today M and I played another game from this book; Race to 100. You need a die, paper and pen. The aim is to score exactly 100 before your opponent. You take it in turns to roll the die and you can either take the score shown or ten times that value, you keep a running total of your score and the first person to reach 100 exactly is the winner, but over 100 is bust. We had half a dozen or so games of this, although she did get extremely cross with me for peeking at her piece of paper. As is often the case in games of chance like this it ended up with me winning most of the time (and the only time I didn't we both went bust!), it is something of a curse when you want to play this sort of thing with children.
It often seems to be the case that we talk about something and decide to 'find out more about it later', but then later doesn't quite happen because we forget or the interest has gone by the time we're in a position to do so. However today we did actually find out some more about how glow sticks work. I read this link to them while they were having their tea and I'm happy to say that my answer to K's original question was pretty much right (if very basic). Still on a scientific theme, but rather different we watched this rather fascinating video that someone posted on Facebook, about what happens when you wring out a very wet flannel in space.
I mentioned yesterday that I'd put the dried peas to soak to make peas pottage for lunch today. It was a mash up of following the instructions on the box of dried peas and adding what they'd talked about at Mary Arden's Farm, onion, garlic, bacon and some herbs (I went for mint and parsley). In the end neither K nor M were particularly interested in helping, but they had a look and in K's case a stir. It was fairly clear that M was not going to like it from her complaining about the smell! To be fair she doesn't like peas, so it was always a long shot, but she did try it, as did K. I thought it was rather good, but K & M had a ham sandwich each instead.
Finally, we went out to the shops this afternoon and while out the girls took the charity cut of their takings from yesterday and put it all in the box on the counter in the Oxfam bookshop and we had a bit of a chat to the man there about what they'd done to raise the money.
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