chocolate, tomb, html :)

 We played Trilemma and Mikado and then did a chocolate taste test with various criteria which involved making up a chart and working out average scores, fractions of possible scores and even percentages. The chocolate was sent by the Dr. Hadwen Trust for us to try and then mention on our mailing list – their shop is no longer running but Ethical Superstore have this bar   Have to say it scored very well and is very like milk chocolate, even smells like I remember milk choc. Easter eggs smelling! It’s very similar to Galaxy.

Did a somewhat schoolified thing getting the children to write about their trip to Brodie and draw a picture – quite good to do stuff like that sometimes I think. They really got into it and wrote pages and pages, Daniel’s full of facts about the places we visited and Charlotte’s had a more personal slant to it about the dogs and fortune cookies We noted how schools do this stuff most of the time to keep kids busy and quiet and only have rare trips and forays into the real world – we seem do the reverse, yet academic progress is being made much faster. I suppose we never focus on things that don’t need extra attention (whole class teaching scenario) and any areas that do, get it at once (one-to-one attention provided as required not as stipulated by budget and time constraints). While discussing paragraphs I showed the children how they are defined in html. They do both have a page each on veganfamily here and here but they haven’t been updated for a long time – maybe some web design study should occur soon.

Daniel was fascinated to hear about this intact tomb that has just been discovered in Egypt.

Doing a competition from the local home ed. group involving Haiku poetry – quite fun, these are kids first attempts (don’t totally understand the way they break down the syllables so weve gone with the British 5,7,5 – need to do a bit more reading up):

Daniel’s:
In the Scottish Glen
the wildcat is on the prowl,
hunting wild rabbits.

Charlotte’s:
Red, yellow, orange
Autumn leaves are falling down,
floating, swirling round.

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