Catch up of last week
The start of last week we didn’t seem to get much done. I was tired with being woken more and for longer as L was teething and restless. M was tired and not feeling very well. Activity wise he got a fair amount of maths done each day and is finishing up in Miquon Green (doing division and ordering including fractions) and we also worked onlearning his 7 x table. We also did some activities around the FIAR book The Finest Horse in Town.
On Monday evening M had Cubs from 6 to 8.30pm because they were going on a visit to work on a badge. That is past his usual bed time, so although he really enjoyed it he was very tired when he got home and took a while to wind down and sleep. Then on Tuesday evening he went to the lad next door’s 9th birthday party and had another long evening. I can’t remember anything about what we did on Wednesday. Oh yes, one thing M did was find pictures and write out information about Russia and Egypt to make some posters to finish off his Friendship badge for Beavers.
On Thursday we did our usual rush out to baby signing first thing, then an early lunch and supermarket shopping. In the evening was M’s last Beaver meeting (except for a bowling night during half term he’s invited to go back for) andwe all went to watch him “swimming up” to Cubs. The Beaver leader was having a bit of a nightmare evening with having to stay later at work so she was late to Beavers and flustered and the Beavers play her up alot. We took a blue sheet because she hadn’t been able to get home and get her stuff, and the sheet was for water for the Beavers to swim up under. M and his friend stood at one side with the Beavers lined upholding the sheet up, then they dissappeared underneath, took off their Beaver sweatshirts leaving their Cub ones underneath and then came out to the Cub leader. On Monday he’s getting invested in Cubs.
On Friday we were supposed to be going to a soap making home ed workshop but it was cancelled at the last minute. Instead we had a bit of a science day. M wanted to do some more with his electronics kit and we spent ages with it once he got a bit stuck because nothing seemed to be working. Alot of time was going through testing the circuit to find what wasn’t working - we found the motor and the buzzer didn’t work and the copper wire wouldn’t conduct electricity (can’t figure out the why of that one - coated maybe? Though it came in the kit and was the part he was supposed to use).
In the afternoon we did one of the First Investigators sheets about rolling cans. M had 4 cans with labels removed and the idea was to roll them down a slope and measure how far they rolled and see if that related to what was in the cans in order to identify which was which. We did loads and it was really fun. L helped as a random environmental anomoly LOL moving the cans before we could measure them or sitting in the middle of the floor in the way. But he did help by bringing the cans back to the slope too. We talked about whether the experiment was reproducible and taking several readings and finding the average. We tried 2 different slope angles and drawing up tables in Word to present results neatly.
After tea we made our Christmas cake. L fell asleep after not napping all day (he seems to be growning out of a daytime nap very early, arghh…!) and so didn’t get to stir the cake and make a wish. M did lots of the mixing and tried to finish off the droplets of Brandy left in the bottle, saying “Mmm, nice”.
