Last night I started reading another book set during the Second World War with my girls. It's a book I remember reading as a child (although I can't remember how old I was);
The Silver Sword. It's the story of a Polish family that is torn apart and the journey the children make across Europe to be reunited years, and hundreds of miles, later with with their parents. After just a few chapters at bedtime yesterday, today I read rather a lot and we're now half way through the book, which has provoked more discussion about war in general as well as the Second World War in particular. We have also had a look on our world map of how far the children had to travel to get from Warsaw to Switzerland. So far they have made it as far as Berlin. I'm going to suggest that we have a look as a couple of our non-fiction books about World War Two, to get some context about the books we've been reading. So we'll see how that goes.
Yesterday we had rather an active day, with ice-skating and then the girls' swimming lesson. K's black eye is looking rather dramatic now and she seems quite happy with it. We got a bit of maths from the incident as it's her fourth black eye and she's coming up to 10 years old, so that means she's had a black eye on average around every 2 1/2 years!
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