How we homeschooled today #7

Maths, more maths, and Beethoven

• Translated two Greek words

• Multiplication by Heart

• Children played Sloth in a Hurry (highly recommended present for 5+) while I did some housework

• I suggested the five year old do some handwriting practice but he ambitiously chose to start writing a story instead, and his sister helped him with the spelling.

• Quiet playing and listening to Beethoven after a tense moment when a pair of glasses got broken in a playfight

• While they ate lunch I read aloud from The Story of Science about dinosaurs and the Burgess Shale

  

  Weird and wonderful creatures of the Burgess Shale

• Snuggled on the sofa and re-read parts of Usborne Lift-the-Flap Multiplying and Dividing, and See Inside Maths

• Felt inspired to fill in some more of our long-neglected homemade multiplication square

• More Story of Science at tea time, about atoms, elements, and the KT impact

• Bedtime stories: Lift-the-Flap Multiplying and Dividing (!) and Persephone and the Seasons from Usborne Greek Myths for Young Children.

• Reading in bed: Chess for Children and Ramona the Pest

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