Jogging along and some disruption.

Yesterday was Asfordby, with the theme of spring and both girls engaged with quite a lot of the crafty activities, decorating polystyrene eggs with fancy pins and making birds out of pipe cleaners and feather for example.  They both also did a spring wordsearch and K did some sudokus too.  M and C made some chocolate nests, although we discovered that although the recipe said you could melt the chocolate, butter and syrup together in a saucepan, it's better to do so in a bowl over simmering water, when the chocolate seized on the first attempt.  The second go turned out very well though!

Yum!

Afterwards we went back to our friends for a while, as none of us was pressed for time because there was no Cubs for them or Brownies for M.  The weather was so lovely, we spent the whole time in their garden.  The girls came up with a trampoline chant with actions about a dragon.

K did a couple of maths worksheets that I made for her, as she's still keen to keep working through the Basher Maths book.  One was about 'lines' (e.g. parallel, perpendicular, arc, chord) and the second was about angles.  The worksheet had two sections, the first was to label different types of angle and the second part was using a protractor to measure various angles, both of which she did without any help.  She embellished the first part rather beautifully!

From the top, a mouse with cheese, a man in a prison, a sun lounger and a mountaineer on a mountain!

We've now started a new book, which we got from the library a while ago.  It's a book I haven't read before, but it rang a bell and so I picked it up on a whim.  It's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken, we're about a third of the way into it already and really enjoying it. 

Today our building work began, which meant two very glum girls.  They really don't like change and have made it very clear that they don't want a new kitchen and don't want anything else to be different either and clearly do feel very strongly about it, and although they do accept that it is happening they aren't happy about it and now that things are actually happening they are being confronted by a constant reminder of that.  The work is going to take 6-8 weeks, so it's going to be a tricky time, and a big chunk of that we will be kitchen-less, which I'm anticipating will be quite stressful for those of us who see this change as a good thing, nevermind for the girls.

I decided that getting out of the house as much as possible is probably a good plan, so this morning, after I'd read some more to the girls, we went to the library to return the books about slavery and the American Civil War and renew some others and do a bit of shopping.  They had got in the Harry Potter cd set that K has been waiting for and the only one that we haven't had out yet, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which will be a good distraction from the building work while we are in the house.

On the way to the library, prompted by a poem that starts 'Hey Diddle Diddle' to help remember the different types of average that I had seen on Facebook, but which K does not want to hear because we haven't got that far in the Basher Maths book yet, we started playing about with the nursery rhyme, when M changed a couple of words, so we took it as far as we could and this is what we ended up with:

Hey Diddle Diddle the feline and the violin

The bovine animal leapt over the planetary satellite

The small canine chuckled to perceive such jollity

And an item of crockery fled with an item of cutlery

After lunch, I dropped the girls off with our friend C, who had kindly agreed to have them for a couple of hours, while I went to help with the sort and clear out of the LLLGB office.  While there they recited not only our version of Hey Diddle Diddle, but also the whole of the Much Ado About Nothing rap that they learned off by heart a while ago.  Once we got home, I read them some more of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase before tea and then as we need to clear out the kitchen completely by the weekend we did some sorting and packing up.  A arrived home just before the girls' bedtime, so they spent some time with him before going to bed.