We've Got Dragons

We've got dragons in our house at the moment.

Ferdy has been complaining of tummy ache, and he's been a bit unhappy about friendships within school. He's also had a headache and sore throat, and been ill over the weekend so perhaps it's all been a bit too much. Apparently some of these things can be called dragons; something we learnt by going to You've got Dragons on Sunday which is a play about a little girl who has to learn to live with her dragons (a swirly tummy, anxiety, feeling prickly) by not ignoring or running away from them.

So on Friday we embraced our dragons.

We put together a pile of books about dragons and read them all.

We sang along to Puff the Magic Dragon more times than I care to mention.

We made Lego dragons.

Ferdy did some written comprehension questions about How to Break A Dragon's Heart.

We learnt about Komodo dragons, and watched a video about a Komodo dragon fighting a snake (Gil: 'why is a baddie fighting a baddie?').

In fact, the only thing that didn't involve a dragon was some numberwork games looking at tens and ones.

The Duplo blocks are our tens, and the Lego squares, our ones

Perhaps by staying at home, and not putting too much pressure on ourselves, and reading lots of books together, and making some time for chats, and having lots of cuddles, we may have also embraced our metaphorical dragons.

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