More Potter and More Punctuation!

During our meet up with friends at Chatsworth House the weekend before last, we were asked if we had the game Destination Hogwarts.  We didn't and as a result, K & M were given it as a very early (birthdays are October and June respectively!) joint birthday present, so that we could take it with us on holiday next month.  It arrived yesterday, we managed to wait until this morning before having a first play.  We played it 4 times today, three times during the day and once with Daddy this evening, so I think it's fair to say that it's a hit! There was one slight problem though, one of the 'hazard' cards says: You have been caught with a copy of the Quibbler.  You are expelled.  The game ends for you now.  Or words to that effect.  This caused some distress, but K & M decided that there had to be a hearing (as Harry has in The Order of the Phoenix) and M, who'd drawn the card, returned to the game a while later.  The next game I drew the card pretty early on, but after that we decided to remove the card from the deck before playing.

K & M spent most of the afternoon (with a break for a game of Destination Hogwarts), making potions.  They made Felix Felicis, also known as Liquid Luck, M informed me that a four-leaved clover was the most important ingredient, but they hadn't managed to find one, so they'd used a normal clover with an extra leaf.  They also made Polyjuice Potion and an antidote (to what I don't know, but they are important for Aurors). 

While they were in the garden I was preparing another punctuation worksheet for K, as she was quite keen when I offered yesterday evening.  The girls came in while I was preparing it and M was looking over my shoulder at what I was doing.  So I brought up the worksheet that K and I had started on Thursday and I asked her if she knew was punctuation was for and starting with Let's eat Granny/Let's eat, Granny, which she thought was very funny, we worked through the question that K & I did at the library.  We talked about capital letters, full stops and apostrophes as we worked through it and she did a good job of telling me what needed to be changed.