Shifting shapes

Our day commenced with a shapes game. Ferdy's learning about 3D shapes at school and, despite putting maths in a list of things he hated about school (he's had a bad first week back so we decided to compile a list of things he hated and things he liked about school), he proclaimed that his hatred of maths doesn't include learning about shapes.

We sang a song about shapes, and we had to run around the house collecting the relevant shapes.

Spheres, cylinders and cuboids were easy, cones and cubes less so. We had no luck with a tetrahedron, and no Gil, my head is not a square based pyramid.

We attempted to draw some 3D shapes.

Ferdy also did some comprehension questions about Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which we have just finished reading. He seems to rather enjoy answering questions with a book by his side, and is getting rather adept at finding the part in the book which corresponds to the question.

Hard work completed, it was time for some shape shifting and some shape searching at a trampoline park.

tl-bl clockwise: spheres; cubiods; a cylinder; almost a square based pyramid

This was one of those rare days where everyone was too busy to go trampolining so we had the whole park to ourselves. For one glorious hour we could use all the equipment with unbridled freedom; we even had the ninja warrior assault course opened up for us. Ferdy taught himself some new moves, including landing on his bottom and then back onto his feet, Gil practised lots of balancing and they could both race, leap, jump, bury themselves, fight, slide, climb and bounce to their hearts' content. I even became ever so slightly obsessed with mastering the tightrope (I only managed half way across much to both of their delight).

On our way home, we started our new audiobook, Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. Both boys were thrilled to make the acquaintance of Pantelimon, Lyra's daemon and an excellent shapeshifter.

Ferdy's been finding this week back at school really hard; perhaps due to the excitement of Christmas, and the fact that we've seen lots of friends and family so it's seemed a long time away from school, but passed very quickly. He's very cross and grumpy with the world and no one has been able to cheer him up.

Fingers crossed for him that next week is a better week.