Saturday

This morning while sitting down to drink their hot chocolates Nathan was asking me what certain numbers look like written down. After I'd explained a few it clicked with him how to decode a number (ie 15 can be worked out by the 1 in front belonging to 10 and the 2nd number added makes it a teen number). He knows how to read those numbers but I don't think really realised how to "make" one. He also got over the hump of not knowing which "10" came next (ie 29 becomes 30). He has been able to count the 21-29 or 61-69 and how to count by 10's but not necessarily what the next set will be. But once he realised the pattern he was away and was then telling me all the 100's. We had a giggle over why fifty isn't fivety - yeah, totally understand his confusion lol! He knows fifty, but when working on it logically he would get to 49 and realised that the 4 becomes a five so logic told him the next ten so converted the "five" and got tangled up. We then read some more from Story of the World (it's not something I make time for, but rather when we're all in the mood we'll sit down and read a chapter or two and over hot chocolates is a pretty good time). He expressed interest in wanting to make a pyramid from his Lego.

Danielle set her animals up and put some music on for them to dance to.

Nathan brought me his maths workbook again this afternoon and the next section we looked at was estimations and measurement. I think his estimation was more spot on than mine. In the course of doing this he was introduced to .5


We did a bit of hefting to estimate weights between two objects that we couldn't visibly tell which was heavier. That was a new thing for me to learn today. I heft all the time only never knew it had a name lol.

Danielle called me into the dining room and was looking at a piece of string that was lying on the floor at an odd angle. It must have looked like a letter to her (but wasn't sure what one). Then pointed to a pen lying on the ground and told me it was an I. I recall when Nathan was younger he'd be lying on the floor and point to the ceiling or random items around the house and note what letter they looked like too.

They bounced on the trampoline for a while between rain showers. Watched a DVD and Danielle wanted to have a little play on the computer in a blank Word sheet.

Nathan got out the Kitchen Science library book and came across a taste test experiment using a blindfold. So he squeezed a few fruits in the kitchen and wanted me to try them.

This evening all the video tapes, cases and dvd's were pulled out of the drawer and initially used to make a tunnel and roads and then later on used as dominoes going down tables and stools and across the floor.