Back home and back to the mess.

We're now back home and trying to get back into the swing of things, but with building work going on and an awful lot of stuff around the house in not necessarily logical places, the PC packed up and the playroom absolutely crammed and the kitchen split between the kitchen and the playroom, it's not really 'normal' (for us that is) round here.  We've got another 4-6 weeks to go and at the moment that is sounding like an awfully long time.  I am holding on the thought that it's going to be much better than it was when we get through to the other side, but unfortunately that doesn't help with the girls because they are still firmly of the opinion that change is bad and the kitchen wanted to stay as it was.

On Sunday, K finished off the the triangle worksheet, which included Pythagoras and working out the area of a triangle.  Using a couple of diagrams of a triangle with a rectangle drawn faintly in a different colour around it, with a bit of help, K came up with the equation to find the area of a triangle: half the base times the height.  Finally, she used a ruler and protractor to draw a particular triangle, given various pieces of information.  I also continued with Ruby Redfort, which we're still enjoying.

The thing I spent most of my time doing on Sunday though, was turning an old pair of A's trousers into Tudor breeches for him, ready for our trip to Kentwell Hall at the end of June.  I'm rather pleased with the result!

Yesterday we continued with Ruby Redfort and also picked up with where we had left off with the Anglo-Saxons & Vikings.  After an early lunch we went to Asfordby, for the board games session.  I was quite surprised to see that they had a go at a Horrible Histories Awful Egyptians board game with C, as they won't go near the books, because they don't like nasty or gory things.  After a play outside, where M cracked leapfrogging (up until then, when she tried to leapfrog me, she ended up in a piggyback position!), we went back to E, C, L & J's for a while.  After tea M had Brownies and K watched a documentary about The Globe theatre that we had recorded.

Today, the girls had piano lessons, we continued with Ruby Redfort, we met friends from school and went back to theirs for play (including football in the garden) and tea, before they all went to korfball.