Today felt a bit like our official start of the new 'not-school year', with our Not Back to School Picnic (thank you C for organising). We all had a lovely time, me catching up with some folks I hadn't seen for a while, or in some cases a long time, and K & M playing with various friends. We were very lucky with the weather, although we were disappointed that the rowing boats which are for hire to go on the lake during the summer had already finished for the season. K & M played with a variety of friends from the age of about 3 to adult, including a rather strange game involving the commissioning of sock stealing by a criminal mastermind and ended with my arresting of the culprit!
We had to dash off and cut the picnic shorter than we would have liked unfortunately because it was the first gymnastics lesson back after the summer break. I think K & M were a little bit bored not to do a bit more challenging things, but it was understandable and necessary as they have a new coach now and she needs to get to know the ability of the children before she can do an appropriate level of work with them and I do think that the girls appreciate that.
When we got home K went back on the computer and worked her way through DragonBox, going through all the levels where she didn't get all three stars first time round. She has now completed all 200 levels with three stars and while she was doing that I talked a bit about what she was doing meant in terms of the algebra. Tomorrow we need to stay in for a delivery, so I'm planning on trying to translate some of what she did to paper and going through it a bit more.
M and I read the last of the four Maths Quest books, The Museum of Mysteries, whic was about 'numbers'. It covered prime numbers, square numbers, factors, multiples and more and, again, she did very well.
We finished the day by watching last week's episode of The Great British Bake-Off, which we all enjoy. It's on a bit late, so I record it but wait to watch it with them.
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