Social circles - or socialising and circles.

This week we went to see two families who have school holidays.  Wednesday we spent the afternoon with S, A & J and the girls made the most of the lovely weather taking lots of their camping equipment into the garden for their game.  Thursday we went to see Ka, Ma & A, where the children had a game of The Settlers of Catan, which Ka & I had a cuppa and a catch up.  She's my oldest friend in Nottingham, who I met, having moved here knowing nobody for my first (and only) teaching job, at the local korfball club, where she still plays and coaches the juniors (including K & M and all four friends we meet up with this week).  We then had our first baby within a year of each other and our second 8 week apart and went along to our first LLL meeting together.  K, Ka, Ma & I had a game of Rummikub, which we'd taken with us, while M & A played outside for a while.

Friday and Saturday has been spent mostly clearing out the kitchen by A & me, while K & M have watched the first two Harry Potter films, which have been on the telly (apparently it's necessary to watch them when they are on, even though we have all of the films on dvd!).  I have also fitted in some more chapters of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase with them. 

I had given K the next maths worksheet that I'd made, on Circles and Pi, a couple of days ago, but she only finally got round to doing it with lots of reminding from me.  I'm finding it a bit frustrating that although she claims to want to do more, when given something that she has asked for she can't seem to find the motivation to make a start on it, although once she does, she will keep at it until she's finished.  The past few worksheets I've made for her, which she has said she does want me to do, it's only when, after putting it off and putting it off, I've said she needs to do the sheet before she can do something else that she wants to do, that she's eventually got on with it.  Having talked to others it seems that she's not alone, and given that I am really rather good at procrastination myself, I suppose I can't really moan too much.  I would like to be able to help her with strategies to get things done though.

The worksheet involved labelling a circle, with circumference, diameter and radius, before moving on to Pi.  We talked through what Pi is, i.e. the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, but had to take a step back and talk about ratios in order to help her understand that.  Then we looked at the equations which you can use to calculate the circumference (C = 2πr or πd) and area of a circle (A = πr²) and she answered a couple of questions using them, after a bit of a recap about giving answers to a certain number of decimal places.