Junior Chef

This weekend the boys went to a birthday party all day at their friend's house. They are here popping bubbles and there was a bouncy castle plus lots of  playtime with friends and tasty treats. 

We did a 'create your own jigsaw' kit, both of them painted theirs and they are currently waiting for them to dry. 

Caden opened up another of his birthday presents, a junior chef set. He really loved it. He read through an entire step by step instructions guide, getting stuck at the temperatures which he hasn't really learned properly yet. He chose to make meatball spaghetti and scones this afternoon with me so we have a nice cookery session planned after our trip to tesco for the ingredients. We will be going with a budget of £10 and he will be helping me to add up the amounts and see if we are right at the checkout. We will also be looking for which is the cheapest and best value (in terms of cost per 100g etc) to keep learning about living in everyday life. 

Today we crunched the division section in his Year 1 maths program. It seemed short and it was good to watch him slowly grasp the concept. He grasped it quicker than multiplication weirdly but I wonder if his time spent doing multiplication last week has prepared him for the division better. It is basically the reverse of what we did in multiplication. It was fairly tedious with lots of counting but was all pretty much correct at 85% and his errors were more for not concentrating properly. He did pretty well with it all in all. Next section is fractions... we are also planned on for doing money which will mean that our planned trip to the supermarket for ingredients will lay a few foundations for that. 

Miles is carrying on with his reading programme. He mostly plays though, works things out with his toys and sees his friends. He just asked me how a helicopter flies in the air - yikes... how to explain that to a 3 year old. Just saying the rotor blades push the air down so that the helicopter goes up should be enough I hope. Maybe we will need to do an experiment on this soon... 

We have a nice chilled week planned. Nothing major going on. Woodcraft folk, all their friends as usual and projects at home planned in. We will need to plan another museum outing in soon. I have a busy month of studying ahead as final exams in June so I will need to stay close to home so i'm not too tired to study in evenings. Summer of fun and outings planned though come the middle of June.