Painting and some problems.

This morning was a bit of a struggle to get up, as K & M had had rather a late night, but we had a lovely morning at an LLL Toddler meeting.  K decided, as she was still tired, to take a 'bed' with her, so took a fleece blanket, a cushion, her dressing gown, a cuddly toy and a book and snuggled down on the landing for most of the time!

Yesterday M had made a card for Granny, as it's her birthday soon, so this afternoon K made one too.  She decided that she was going to paint one.  M asked if we had any other birthdays coming up and painted two more cards, one that's very late and one for next month.

K's card for Granny

M's card for Granny

M's card for Nana - the space at the bottom is for the writing

M's card for C

We have a long-standing running joke that C really likes potatoes, and it is now a tradition (it's the second year) that we give her a home-grown potato for part of her birthday present.  M's card is a painting of a potato going for a walk in a wood.  She has also made her a potato ornament.

M's potato ornament for C

M has continued to do some more of DragonBox and K & I have put the algebra she learned on the app onto paper.  We worked through a simple equation together and then plotted it onto a graph.

Finally after a whoops at tea time which involved a broken bowl and tea all over the floor, we continued with Going Solo.  We came to the chapter when Dahl finally joined his squadron and engaged with Luftwaffe planes.  There are some quite graphic descriptions of the results of the bombing of an oil tanker among other things, which K in particular found really quite upsetting, but she did want me to continue reading.  We talked about how it's important to learn about our history even though it's upsetting and I told her about how in wartime there are some incredibly brave people working to save people admit the horrors, such as the woman who smuggled thousands of babies out of a Jewish ghetto.  K has always been adamant that she doesn't want to learn about anything to do with death or dying in history, so war has obviously been a no-no, but I think she might be open to finding out a bit more now, we'll see.