A bitty sort of day.

We had a lovely weekend, during which K & M were mostly huskies.  We had friends to stay and all three girls were keen to continue the game that had started when we last saw them.  M in particular was bemoaning the fact that I don't play imagination games as much as C & M.  On Saturday we all went a local scarecrow festival and had a lovely time.  The theme was All Creatures Great and Small and there were some great displays.

Wallace & Gromit

The Hare & the Tortoise

Sunday was rather wet for most of the afternoon, so we played Cluedo, which was the first time I've played when all six of the characters have been in play.  It was fun and very close in the end.  When our friends left two teddies belonging to the girls went with them for a holiday and will be sending a postcard.  K even offered to pay for the stamp, although she was told it wasn't necessary.  She also wrote an email asking for regular updates from Patch Teddy before our friends would even have arrived home!  I was allowed to see it (unusually so) and was happy to see that it was very well written, she had asked for help with spelling a couple of words (would and while), including the correct use of apostrophes.

Today we had a rather late start, but with the only thing planned being Brownies this evening, that didn't really matter.  This morning I got out some things that we'd borrowed from friends for our body project, which we haven't really done any of for a while.

Borrowed goodies!

M put the skeleton on and K later added the internal organs and we looked up a couple of bits that we weren't sure what they were.  They turned out to be the pancreas and the gall bladder. 

I also finished reading The Silver Sword to the girls, the last couple of chapters in a rather 'wobbly' voice.  It lead to talking about what happened in Germany at the end of the Second World War, as the children in the story travel through the Russian and American zones of occupation.  It struck me that unless it's specifically mentioned that children are unlikely to know that Germany was two separate countries for decades after the war and were only reunified within their parents' lifetimes, so now K & M are aware of this!  I had a look in a couple of children's non-fiction books that we have about the Second World War, but neither of them addresses the situation in post-war Germany.  I did however find a map of Europe that included the zones of occupation and another one of Berlin, in our Complete History of the World while the girls were at Brownies, which I showed them when they got home.

Other than that, M in particular has been playing the piano a lot lately, including pieces from earlier books, including one piece that involves moving her right hand, which I think she was playing by a mixture of sight reading and by ear.  She wasn't getting it quite right, but did listen when I talked to her about tucking her thumb under to move up and was doing a really good job a short while later.

Finally K's eye is still looking quite impressive and the colours are changing noticeably now.  The colours really have been incredibly beautiful as you can see!

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