* took Zebedee for a walk; discussed how to deal with strangers wanting to talk to her when she is alone
* Nannie and Pa came past to pick up red car
* repeated reading (fluency): How to Talk Dog (we are nearly finished)
* watched For the Juniors – The Sea, Mangroves
* watched The Text Files: 09. Computer Adventure Games
* postcard filing; also located and labelled Florida and South Dakota on the outline US map
* did some of a wordsearch from new book
* checked mealworms: some of the beetles have emerged; we observed that they were pale brown rather than black and hypothesised that they will darken as they get older
* post office to mail latest batch of cards
* supermarket to buy ingredients for baking (biscuits for Pa and MG)

• technology: discussed the various grades for milling sugar; located some different grades (ie. icing, caster, white, raw) and arranged them in order from fine to coarse
• health: read and discussed the recall notices on various products in the dried fruit section
• maths: compared different brands of chocolate chips and determined which were bigger or smaller (eg. is 230g bigger or smaller than 250g?); compared weight of two different brands of cooking chocolate to quantity called for in recipe and decided which would produce less wastage

* hosed off old red rocker for Katy, and watered plants out the front and new ones out the back
* lunch
* maths: used choc chips as manipulatives to practise regrouping, with the bribe of getting to eat them if she did it correctly *g* She has mostly got the hang of it, she just objects to having to go through the whole regrouping process when she can find the answer in her head much more quickly! So I said I would make some more worksheets with harder sums so she can practise (she also wants me to add places for stickers). We concentrated on reinforcing the idea of adding up the ones column first by using something to cover over the 10s column til she was ready to regroup.
* syllable speed drill
* swimming lesson 4pm
* library visit – used library catalogue (with assistance), chose books to borrow, used self-checker to check them out. Read one of them in the library and in the car (with assistance in decoding).
* picked up E from work