The calm before the trip.

Tomorrow we're heading off to Suffolk, as I might have mentioned once or twice, for the Tudor day on Wednesday.  Having got the costumes all sorted, we had time to do some other things today.  So this afternoon (with the tennis on in the background), I read a few more chapters of the Charlie Bone book. 

K finished off her subtraction worksheet, with just one mistake that she didn't pick up on before she checked her answers with the calculator.  I don't know whether she's going to want to continue with what we were doing, or if the Maths Quest books that she's read might mean that she wants to pick up on something she's met in them, we'll see! 

While K was busy with sums, I asked M if she'd like me to read one of the Maths Quest books with her and she did, so we read The Mansion of Mazes together.  Some of the questions she didn't have a clue about, such as acute and obtuse angles, but others she knew without thinking about, such as the term parallel (she told me she knew that from both ballet and gymnastics), she also identified a formation of blocks that had been rotated compared to a picture of them immediately.  Other questions she managed with a bit of prompting, such as the weights and measures questions.  She quite enjoyed the book, although definitely wouldn't have been up for reading it on her own, even though she would have been easily capable.

In other news, having talked about glaciers at the dinner table a couple of weekends ago, K has finally finished making the model that we picked up when we went to the British Geological Survey Open Day.