Getting the hang of it.

K has been continuing with the addition worksheet I made for her.  After the couple of mistakes she made previously, she has obviously learned from them, as she only got one more wrong in the rest of the sheet, and that was a 'silly' mistake, lack of concentration, rather than not getting it.  To finish off I asked her if she'd like a really big sum and she said yes, so I gave her a sum with two 10 digit numbers to add.  She did it, checked it with a calculator and came to tell me that she'd got it right, but had made a mistake when she was doing it, but noticed at the time and put it right straight away.  I'm happy that K has cracked this and more importantly I think that she is too.  Now on to subtraction!

Meanwhile, M has been getting on with her birthday thank you cardlets.  Just a few more and she'll be done with them.  She has also been writing other things, but mostly letters to her best friend J, but they're strictly private, so I haven't been allowed to see them!

K & M had their third piano lesson with their new teacher, who they are both still very positive about.  Today I sat down with M while she practised, as she wanted me there to make sure she started the pieces with her fingers in the right place and I was impressed with how she was doing.  K did a bit of practice too, but she preferred to be on her own for it.

As K & M each have half an hour piano lesson and the weather's good, the one not having the lesson and I have the choice of going to the nearby playground for 20 minutes or going for a walk along the canal.  Last week, M chose the playground and K the canal, this week it was the other way around.  M was hoping to see some cygnets, but unfortunately we didn't this time.  We did however see lots of other water birds with chicks, moorhens and ducks.  We talked about how you can see the young coots change in appearance, as we saw some older chicks and what was obviously a second brood.  We also saw some very cute ducklings.

K & I explored some physics on the playground equipment and stopped to look at some bees on the way back to pick M up.