A little bit of History, English and Maths.

Having taken about 4 1/2 months to get through the Tudors and Stuarts book in the Usborne History of Britain, we finally moved onto The Georgians and I read the whole book in one afternoon on Friday!  We also had a visit from a friend, K, who at the girls' request brought a game with her for us to borrow again; The Settlers of Catan, which we had a game of in the evening.

K and I had a discussion about this and how it could mean different things if you added punctuation to it.

I wrote two possibilities:

Bless this house with friends' laughter and love.

Bless this house with friends, laughter and love.

and K correctly identified the difference in meaning between the two and then giggled about the difference between 'Let's eat Granny!' and 'Let's eat, Granny!', which we'd talked about previously.

K has also done another worksheet that I made for her to go with the Basher Maths book, this time on Per Cent.  The worksheet went a bit further than the info in the book, which was very basic - pretty much just turning fractions into percentages and how this is helpful to compare things.  She did this part of the worksheet very easily but then went off and eventually we got back to it this evening at my insistence.  The worksheet also covered increasing and decreasing by percentages, for example if something that costs £20 is 25% off in a sale, how much does it cost.  This initially caused a bit of a problem, because K worked it out quickly intuitively and when I tried to encourage her to work out how she had got to the answer we both ended up quite stressed.  With a couple of questions that were a bit trickier in terms of the numbers, we talked things through together and I think by the end she'd got the hang of it.  

We did have words somewhat when K wanted to leave it and finish it another time, but with only a couple of questions left I insisted we complete it before watching Strictly Come Dancing results.  She was somewhat grumpy, but after she'd finished I reminded her that she had asked me to insist on getting on with things sometimes, like I had done here.  When I asked her again if I had been right and she did want me to do this she said yes, so all ended well.