A fairly educational day here today although I really should be following a few things up with Davies as I promised instead of sitting here 😉
First thing the children played with playdough while watching Class TV. There was a really good programme on about an apple tree which told the story of the seasons changing and had all sorts of ancillary facts such as a puppy and a kitten playing together in the spring and then being grown animals by the following spring, a bee landing and the man talking about the role of bees in apple trees and also honey production. Very good 🙂 So we chatted a bit about the things raised by that as they happened and then I wandered off to do other stuff while they carried on playing and watching. There was some show about storms including some footage of the 1987 storm and a weathergirl stood infront of a weather map talking about weather forecasts. Then Davies started watching a thing about Shakespeare which he showed a fair bit of interest in too, particularly when I told him that Stratford, where we have been several times is where Shakespeare was born – need to dig out the Shakespeare children’s version books from Book People (Merry, if you remember can you bring the Ant & Cleo one to Okehamton? 🙂 ). I also had a bit of a browse on the BBC website and we played a couple of the maths games, Scarlett really surprised me with her mouse pad and button clicking skills and also recognising numbers when Davies called them out. I also googled for my answer to the largest number – I think I can explain it a bit better now next time that one comes up. 🙂
We headed off to Julie’s then and on the way Davies told me it was supposed to be windy and rainy today (it was) and he’d seen it on the TV saying it was going to happen before it did. How did they know that before it happened? Explained my sum total of knowledge about meterology and promised to catch up on that with him again too – which would obviously tie in well with the temperature stuff then wouldn’t it really 🙂
Nice couple of hours at Julie’s – the children have all reached that age where they disappear into their playroom together to play so me and Julie get to drink tea and chat, which is always a bonus. 🙂 Talked about money, lifestyles and alternative lives – interesting stuff.
Left there slightly earlier that I’d planned to as Tarly suddenly got all whingey and just wanted to come home so it seemed pointless to string it out for another half an hour. I managed to keep her awake all the way home by me and Davies singing songs to her but she has just curled up and fallen asleep on the sofa next to me – ah well, sleep routines likely to be shot to pieces at the weekend anyway 😉
Right, going to see if I can interest Davies in a book about the weather.
Tis in the pile!
Oh, the biggest number thing – I’ve done stuff like get them to tell me a large number and then added one, or, more usefully, get them to write down a *huge* number – as many digits as he can fit ona page – and then just add more digits in wherever you like. Seemed to get the message across to mine that whatever you think of, you can think of something far larger.