Fridays come in all shapes and sizes

Our day began with a lesson in pastoral care as Gil had to have his preschool injections. Ferdy and I took him to the drs with Ferdy promising to hold his hand whilst he had them. How sweet, I thought, until Ferdy found some Beano and Dandy annuals in the waiting room and forgot all about his altruistic offerings.

Next stop was the library, where we returned some of our books and took out 17 more.

Ferdy's learning about adjectives at school so we looked at quite a few books and picked out the adjectives, a favourite was Top Place Percy, about Percy the plaice who thinks he is a 'slow, dull, flat, boring' fish.

And because we hadn't read enough books, we popped to a cafe where there were more to read.

It's imperative to wear a flower on your head when reading books

Earlier that morning we had watched some some videos and songs about 2D and 3D shapes and learnt about the properties of 3D shapes so we thought it might be nice to go out and see if we could find some 3D shapes.

It shaped out to be a pretty successful shape hunt. Ferdy searched for, and Gil modelled the shapes

Cuboids

Cylinders

Spheres

Ferdy even found a cone at the end of the day, or part of one, but we decided it counted.











It was one of those slightly fragmented sort of days where nothing really seemed to take shape (I know, I just can't help it) but actually we did rather a lot. Ferdy seems to be quite a bit happier at doing some reading and some writing on Fridays so all of that takes up less time; he often reads straight after breakfast, and does his writing at the end of the day. And I love how what we learn seeps into the weekend; 'Ferdy do you want your cheese grated or in cubes?', 'In cuboids please Mummy'...

Ferdy wrote: 'I went on the fast swing and an apple is a sphere'