The past week of February

Today we played bean bag games, used our feet to pick up stones and pop them into a basket and worked on a number of maths equations including some bar graph questions.

Yesterday we did a lot of Form Drawings.  I love doing this.  I've got a separate book for them at the moment and doing the outlines in yellow to aid Springy (she's in her 9-year change at the moment and everything seems to be a big trauma unless we take it back to something less stressful).

We baked some scones (with cranberries and raisins) and worked on negative numbers using the stairs and the keyboard. We used middle C as zero and worked up and down from there. We also had one stair as the zero stair and then went up and down from there too - it's just to give a quick overview to Springy so she can understand more about temperature etc later on.

For Imbolc we made candles, read Farmer Boy (which resulted in us making some popcorn and polishing shoes with wax), Springy did some maths problems whilst I was working, did some knitting, walked dog, made egg stir fried rice with courgettes and cashews + lots of conversation.