Monday summary

After days of sunshine the rain came down today, alhamdulillah, and we got back into the home ed routines.
Today Ia moved onto Peter and Jane book 10. At level 9 I only had one of the two books, and this level 10 book we picked up in a charity shop last week. She really wants to read all the way to the last level, level 12. We only have one book per level for levels 11 and 12, and it is not worth getting the others as by now there is so much more she can choose from, alhamdulillah. She just wants that completed feeling with the Peter and Jane books. She is reading other things by herself now too, for example a lovely Usborne lift-the-flap book on sharks we found in the library at the weekend.
Both girls did some more volume and capacity work today, finding out how many cupfuls of water fit in the teapot, and comparing that with the capacity of saucepans, bowls etc. I'm not using any other standard units of measurement with them, just estimating and comparing with cupfuls. They also tried out measuring with cupfuls of dried beans.
We began the morning by all watching some clips from a farming documentary featuring the dairy farm from where our milk comes. It was great to be able to see the actual farm and actual cows whose milk we drink! We didn't watch the whole programme, just the highlights for us!
Later the girls watched some short videos on a pet care site recommended by a sister on the Ihsan forum (link in side bar). They were amazed to see a cat having its teeth brushed. Can't imagine our cat tolerating that!!!
The girls have also played with their new toy kitchen, and with the old and rarely used lego pieces, Ia did her daily bits of work and U decided to do a few pages of a maths workbook.
The boys are brushing up on the Wind in the Willows play we read some weeks back, so that we can do some further work on it. Somehow I couldn't make time for it any sooner. They also continued with the usual stuff, and began a new topic on classification in science.