cooking and maths

The girls wanted to bake with Reuben, so they got a basic cupcake recipe off the internet and tripled the quantities, so the timetables must be going in !!!!
They decorated the cupcakes and cake with different flavoured icings.

Flapjacks

Jemima made flapjacks, she was fascinated by the brown sugar mixing with the melted butter, and the different layers created in the pan.

Library

While Reuben listened to stories told by the librarian, Imogen went on the computer and found out about advertising and Jemima read a factual book about butterflies and then together we did a map of Europe jigsaw.

Love Spoons

Jemima deciding which symbols to use to make a love spoon.

St David's Day

We started finding out information and facts about Wales, it's culture and St. David's day. We then went on to do various activities, wordsearches and learning a few welsh words for weather.
In the evening the girls made a three course welsh dinner, Welsh rarebit, followed by oven fried potatoes with scallons and bacon and finally Monmouthshire pudding.
The next day, I set the girls the task of finding and writing down facts about St David. They also made love spoons.

Shirebrook

Jemima went with friends to Shirebrook nature group for the Home ed group. She really enjoyed making a bench for the elderly people that visit the reserve.

Times tables and other stuff...

We have been making a big effort to learn the times tables this week. We have found some excellent web based games which the girls love (and me and geoff have enjoyed too!!!) and this has certainly helped them to remember!!
and other stuff...
Imogen: ratios, multiplication word problems and learning to set out problems step by step and then solve.
Jemima: time- months+calendars, using step-by-step methods to add 2 digit numbers to 2 digit numbers.