9-9:30
• handwriting

9:30-10
• reading with expression: Red Lips (poem by Beth)
• word mapping: little; girl

10-11:30
• Beth drew a detailed face, with shading, and some attempts at drawing a house from different perspectives while I read aloud from Charlotte Yonge’s A Book of Golden Deeds
• painted inserts for her DIY “lava lamp” kit
• played in the garden

11:30-12:30ish
• maths problems
• sight word revision
• wrote a short story using the sight words
• talked about the Commonwealth and about the differences between the way in which America and Australia achieved independence from Britain
• talked about the end of Imperial China, the Great Wall, and a bit about dynasties. B decided she wanted to look at China more deeply so we decided to do that tomorrow