bur SB has had a good home ed day with Chris – maths, reading, playing, colouring. She made me a present too – bless.
We did violin together – how fast does Joe play frere jaques then? we are at dirge speed with various tuning issues!! At least she is getting used to the bigger violin size now. And it is recognisable!
BB and I had lots of cuddles. SB did lots of ball catching practice. I had promised SB a maths experiment yesterday to show why I knew she was cheating at uno, so we did some probability with coins. We grasped the half heads half tails chance = 50:50, and then threw 3 coins at a time. I got SB to work out how many different patterns there were. We considered how likely we were to choose certain coins out of the pile. At the end of this we looked at the idea of how many uno cards there were, and how many 2+ and 4+, and although we didn’t do the maths [ernest can!] it was quite clear that the chance of a hand of all 2+ and 4+ very unlikely! So there we go, a good start a probability.
The coins were grubby, so we have set up the salt and vinegar to clean them, as SB remembered how good this was at cleaning last time.
Girls now using stencils and colouring in.
I am being grumpy on ‘puter
Hugs for the grumps and blahs – my girls did me a ‘birthday party’ today (no, it isn’t …) – it’s lovely when they’re being sweet and kind, isn’t it?
I’m in denial about Frere Jaques! In fact we have barely played new violin and I suspect it needs new strings – am I safe to take the ones of the too big one and transfer them or will they not take kindly?
‘fraid you need the right size strings t-bird
We will sing Frere Jaques.
our loal shop only sells “full sized” strings, he recons you just cut them down to size and tune em up!
Sigh, so I need to get a new set then? Ah well, better get knitting socks then hadn’t I!
well i’ve never done that. he cooouuuld be right – i’ll ask my mum