* took the dog for a walk
* maths workbook (revision)
* sightword flashcards (revision – 75%+ recognition) – she has increased her wordbank considerably and was able to cope with many more words before she overloaded
* watched BTN and part of Our History
* went for a short bike ride
* practical maths lesson in volume: she built a pool with lengths of wood and a tarpaulin. She built it on a slope with the point facing downhill, so there wasn’t an awful lot of water in the wider top part. I asked her what she would have to re-do in order to get the most water possible into her pool. After a bit of thinking, she figured out she would have to rebuild it with the base of the triangle on the downhill side. She did this, adding the modification of a wider piece of wood for the downhill wall, propped up with bricks.
* read some of the Big Book of Pirates, mostly about women pirates
* swimming with Nannie from 1:30pm
* circus 4-6pm
* reading aloud: Captain Abdul’s Little Treasure – a very suitable yarn for TLAPD. Ooh-aargh, ye swabs!