Not doing things by halves

Our day began with some reading, and some fractions.

We learnt about halves and quarters, which seemed to suddenly be quite easy when chocolate buttons were involved. I decided then that we should learn about thirds too..

Ferdy's started rather enjoying reading; he has realised that reading might actually be useful when trying to find out what Beano, Dandy and other cartoon characters are saying.

It wasn't raining today and we haven't managed to get out much in the last few weeks so we decided to have an outdoors day at Shugborough Hall.

Balancing and climbing

Shugborough has a rare breed farm and a lovely farm museum all about the workers on a Victorian farm and their daily routine throughout the seasons.

tl-br: making up a farm story; looking at the different farm animal babies;
my show about Mr Gum; Ferdy as an Under Dairymaid

Ferdy became the Under Dairymaid and I was treated to a show all about Mr Gum on the Farm (don't ask why..).

Whenever we go anywhere on a Friday it's pretty quiet and we often get to chat to people; I think they're often quite intrigued when Ferdy explains about our 'not at school, school day' (or they're just being polite). Both boys have recently become much less shy and Ferdy told the staff about how much he'd enjoyed the museum.

But the abiding memory of the day was encountering Baxter the dog outside the cafe, and feeding him dog biscuits supplied by his very kind owner.

 

Ferdy enjoyed meeting him so much he took his picture, drew a picture of him and then voluntarily wrote 'Baxter is grey and furry. I stroked him and gave him a dog biscuit'.