The gap in my blog last week actually does have a reasonable explanation this time – I had the lurgi first. Thursday morning we did do a bit more maths – B breezed through another repetition of the Smartkiddies 4-digit addition module so I marked that off as being done. Since she did it so quickly we also did the 2-digit shapes unit, where you had to count sides/corners/angles and name the shape. She picked up instantly that the number of sides/corners/angles are the same (which I presume was the point of asking them to count all three, otherwise it looked a bit clunky?!) and was able to use logic to deduce the name from the number of sides. We did have to discuss parallelograms and trapeziums (trapezia?) though. She knew with the first one (octagon) that “oct-” meant eight, which gave her the key to the whole pattern.

That was about all I felt up to for the rest of the week, so she basically amused herself. Since that involved reading quite a lot of Harry Potter I don’t feel that she was “neglecting” her “education” without me there to crack the whip, seeing as this week her “English” work has consisted of…reading Harry Potter. Frankly, the idea of pulling her away from a book which she is voluntarily reading to do some make-work reading exercises struck me as the silliest idea imaginable! There is nothing I could possibly do which will improve her reading as much as reading something she’s passionate about will do…