Kites, stories, a poem and more.

We started the day with a trip to the dentist for our six monthly check up.  Then we popped in to the library for a while, M read herself a Dr Seuss book and K did part of the fractions worksheet that I made for her a while back.  Then we went to the park and flew our kites.

K flying a kite she made at a group

M flying our bought kite

 We only came home because I had forgotten to take a hat and my ears got too cold and starting hurting!  Once home I read some more Anne of Green Gables before lunch.  While I was reading M presented me with something she'd been doing while listening.

It's Anne (with-an-e) Shirley!

After lunch we watched a dvd of Just William, which A has been reading to them at bedtime over the last few months (he reads much more slowly than me and less at a time anyway!).  We all really enjoyed it and K spotted that the actor who plays William's teacher, Bruce Mackinnon, was in Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors that we saw at the RSC last year. 

I read most of the rest of Anne of Green Gables afterwards, getting extremely choked up towards the end of the book, not surprising as I'm in floods of tears every time I read it.  I didn't quite manage to finish the last chapter before korfball, but quickly finished it off before I went out to my choir this evening.

In other news, towards the end of last year, M wrote a poem for a Puffin Post competition.  I wasn't allowed to post it at the time in case 'somebody stole her idea', but enough time has passed that I have now been given permission to do so.  It's about Christopher, pictured below.

I have a dog 

He is a toy

But he is real to me

He likes to sit on a log

And when I see him doing it

It gives me joy

He surely cannot be a toy