Catching Up

Yesterday Ia was looking at a dinosaur book where she saw a cross section picture showing the internal organs. She asked me “Is that all the food?” I thought it was very cute, maashallah.
Ia has been making good progress again. She is doing nursery number work with ease and has been making an effort to learn her letters, so she certainly knows more than she did last week. She now does her number books while the boys are doing their maths, which works well.
U is saying a lot more. Yesterday she was looking through a picture book naming lots of things I didn’t know she could say, such as dinosaur. Maashallah. She still does her long, incoherent explanations, accompanied by much arm waving. But much more of it is making sense now.
This week we have had a break from the school group routines. The weather has been warm and sunny, so we have been spending time in the park. We also went to the nature reserve for a walk again. On Saturday we went to the library, where the boys chose eight books. These have been keeping them busy and providing some quiet times. They have nearly finished them now, so another trip will be needed. Sometimes you can find some interesting books in the library, but on other visits we come away with almost nothing. So many of the books are about magic or about children behaving badly at school.As part of my clearing out effort I let them use some of the dried grasses I’ve had up in a vase for years to print with. They made some interesting patterns, although the different shapes of the grasses did not translate well in the printing. Maybe the paint was too thick