The kids made their way through a bunch more of the puzzles and games in the drawer over the past few days. This evening Nathan discovered some alphabet cards and some with numbers at the bottom of the drawer and wanted to copy them out. So we sat down together while he went through and copied out all the lower case letters.

Danielle showed an interest in lighting the woodfire tonight. So she helped Simon build up the paper and kindling and then he held her hand while she struck the match and put it to the paper.

This evening as the bath was filling Nathan picked up an old plastic peanut butter container that the kids use as a bath toy and filled it up with water, screwed on the lid and dropped it into the water. He noted that it floated just under the surface. I found this interesting, because for ever he has been playing with filling bottles, putting the lids on, floating boats, boats fill with water and sink etc. But this was the first time he really "noticed" this in a way that it made him curious. So we experimented with what he had discovered. I showed him how there was a small amount of air at the top which caused it to float, then filled it entirely to the top and that caused it to sink. He then emptied it and it entirely floated and then half filled it and noted that it half-floated.

We took a little break from Farmer Boy tonight and started on Heidi which I'd borrowed from my mum.