B walked E to the bus stop, fed the chooks and collected 2 eggs, then watched an episode of Life of Mammals before breakfast. I also nudged her to check on the rats, given her Pets badge ambitions! K played with the dolls’ house again, which she’s been doing a bit lately.
After we dropped B off at pottery, K and I went to Dickson and did some op shopping. I found some good toys for K (some horse figurines and some snap-together beads which were a hit with both of them), plus a couple of books, including Cooking with Asterix which looks like a bit of a laugh. Also picked up a couple of GF things at Woollies, and discovered that since the last time I was in Dickson, a speciality GF bakery and cafe has opened up! I agreed to take B there next week as a farewell brunch before she leaves for Temora.
After pottery, they both played with the beads, K watched some Play School, B read the Asterix cookbook, and everybody had lunch before we headed off to Jamison to visit the Allergy Centre. K was getting very grumpy, so we prepared for her to fall asleep during the drive by packing the new Mad Libs book. B filled in one while I was driving, then thought of words for a couple while K slept. I think we did four or five and they were good value – I will definitely be going back and buying the rest of the set! When we got bored with Mad Libbing we woke K up, and found the new location for the Allergy Centre. Their range is fantastic! We bought some pizza bases, two sausage rolls, some more pasta, and some plain GF flour which became my answer to Madam’s constant demand for cakes and biscuits *rolls eyes* B had bloody well better be allergic to gluten at this rate *g* But this should keep her going for the three weeks of the trial, at least, and then we will have a better idea if she needs to switch permanently…
B eventually did sit down and do some maths. She whizzed through the fractions unit in Module 4, then did it again, then did it wrong to see what would happen *g* Then she did the quiz for Module 3 and was very discouraged when she got some answers wrong. I think we need to practise word problems (although she got them all right, she seemed a bit confused by the process of translating the problem into an operation) and go back over the actual 3D nets and the names of various shapes.
After that they played in the garden for a while, and let the chooks out for a rampage (with Zebedee locked inside, of course!). K and I did some beading and sorting, then played with the dolls (I’ve just figured out that the oldest one has been named Pattypan. Don’t ask me why!). They’ve both been playing in the dolls’ house, as well as with Duplo. B built an awesome dinosaur, so K built her own as well *g* Apparently it was a plant eating dinosaur, so she made a plant for it to eat as well. Then I kept them amused for what must have been ten minutes at least, just going round and round and round…and round……and round………and round in circles. Initially I had challenged them to see who would fall over first, but after a while with no one going plunk we varied it by getting one to copy the other, or singing the “Round and round and round we go” song so they sped up or slowed down. After E came home, they calmed down a little bit, and B gave the rats cage-free time and was very good explaining to K how to be gentle with them. Everybody helped make dinner (pizza), then E and K went to the shop and B watched Australian Story and Four Corners.