We've been a bit up in the air since my auntie died, but we are getting back on track now. We have done three trips to the RI this year so far: a schools event on the physics of rollercoasters and fairground rides, a family fun day on the brain and a schools event on maths and magic. Royal Institution, we are so grateful you re-thought your heinous plan to charge home educators four times the school price, because we love your events, we love science and we don't deserve to be penalised for choosing to home ed. (if a school child is sick and the teacher brings 29 kids instead of 30, so what, but if our child is sick, we can't come...which I suppose makes us less "reliable" but it's still not fair!)
Elsewhere, she has made a good start on the Maths Mindstretchers 9-11 book and has set herself the goal of finishing the whole book before she actually is 9. She is getting much more confident working with bigger numbers and she really enjoys it..
We have a few projects on the back burner, still working on one on the brain and now planning one about hiccups! But today we started looking at cave art for the history fair in March (experience has taught me that if we are not organised well in advance we will not be ready at all!). The plan is to do a short presentation on cave art with pictures and then provide a craft activity to go with it.
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