In At The Deep End

Tots and Nots started with French, using a shapes and colours game of L’s (much to her disgust!) to revise rouge, vert, bleu, jaune and learn un carre, un rond/cercle, un demi-rond, un triangle, un rectangle. Supplementary vocab included un de (and lancer le de), un clown and je voudrais… Oh and c’est a moi
We started with L, K and E, then when J and J were having their go SB arrived and joined in too (vocab list mostly for your benefit Helen ) with K helping her on words she did not know having missed intro.

French went on until pretty much snacktime, then after snack we did some Latin – a whistlestop tour of Minimus ch. 2 ready to start ch. 3 next time, then a worksheet from the Vindolanda website about being in the Roman army. We got into a fairly detailed discussion of what shape was best for a shield (rectangular so it can tessellate) and for a fort (round, square and rectangular all had their supporters; triangular was universally rejected). They all earned their legionary certificates, then we finished with the story of Daedalus and Icarus: a stark warning to listen to your parents

By sheer coincidence Gina had brought along a craft activity involving squares, but I’m not sure mine got round to doing it – must check, as it would fit nicely

Blokus and chess also happened, and some long involved game with dens which threatened to exclude some of the children and led to a heavy talk (mostly from me but with some child input) about involving people…
It was quite late by the time we were all cleared away, piano lessoned, finished playing outside and so forth, but we have Bob’s parents here for the weekend and no time to shop tomorrow so came home via supermarkets and didn’t beat Bob by much.

A very snotty and a bit clingy,so once we were home not much happened until Bob got here, when he took her and the boys to collect a prescription while L and I thought about tea. She fell asleep in the sling and he ended up going out again for chips. Oops!

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