How We Homeschooled Today #77
Hakuna matata…
In brief today, because most of the day consisted of a trip to see the Lion King musical on a Joint Grannies Special Outing (the Joint Chiefs have got nothing on the Joint Grannies).
Before we left, the children each did a new spelling, and my daughter did a revision of twenty spellings (which was a vastly better experience than the one I reported back in HWHT#60).
They both did some playing around with a number balance exercise from NRICH, and I had written the equation from the same website on the blackboard: 8+4 = ?+7. After our session on equals yesterday, my daughter got it first time. Hurrah! Then two games of Number Hive practising multiplication (to 12x12, which was a stretch!) and addition.
On the way to the theatre they read (The Mousehole Cat, Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos, The Wanderings of Odysseus). While I waited for them to reappear, I had a haircut, went to the recently-reopened National Portrait Gallery (fantastic), read John Adams in a smart hotel (after Rachael Ringenberg’s book recommendation in her latest post) and browsed in a bookshop, where I came across this…
It’s a brilliantly information-dense book about the real life work scientists are doing. I resisted buying it but will start trawling libraries tomorrow. My daughter would love it. There’s a second book, about Antarctica, coming next year. I wish I’d taken a photo of the inside pages because I can’t find any online, and I’d love to show you how good it looks.
Home in time for bed!
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This was such a delight to read. Your writing is clear and so easy to track along with. Thank you!