Yesterday, K & M had their usual two hours of gymnastics and while there plotted with various friends about a Harry Potter show of some description that they are planning on putting on. They were discussing parts and making props and scenery and the plan is that it will happen at some point after the summer at Asfordby.
K & M also had their last Thursday swimming lesson, they've moved up to the next class, but that also means a change of day. Unfortunately the only option we can manage is Wednesday, which up to now has been our only free weekday. So now we have got a weekly activity, as well as some monthly or twice monthly ones, every day, with Brownies on Monday, korfball on Tuesday, swimming on Wednesday, gymnastics on Thursday and ballet for K on a Friday!
Having started on the minus numbers on Wednesday, I made K a worksheet, which she took and disappeared with. The idea was to get her thinking about predicting whether the answer to the sum she was looking at was going to be positive or negative, whether it was going to be bigger or smaller than the first number in the sum and therefore have an idea of whether the answer she came up with was a sensible one. So on the worksheet, there were some simple one digit sums such as 5 - (-4), she first had to decide whether the answer was going to be + or -, then work out the answer and finally use a calculator to check if she'd got it right. Then there were some two digit sums along similar lines, e.g. 46 + (-23), and she had to decide whether the answer was going to be greater or smaller than 46, before working out the sum and then again checking with the calculator. K often prefers to work through things on her own, so the idea of using a calculator to check her own answers as part of the task worked well. She made her own small number line for the first lot of questions I think, and got up this morning to do the second lot. She hasn't let me see the sheet, yet, but told me that she did get them all correct when she checked.
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