Latinetc – acids and bases

migrainous day for me, coldy day for z, shattered day for k, and very grumpy day for g as the road she needed to drive along was blocked and so she had a fab time getting to latinetc . but, despite that, actually i think we did well!! The children all enjoyed it, and did a fair number of things. we adults i think got an idea for fiddling around with what we do when to try and make the flow easier for us [cos it is a 'hard work' day]. so 3 cheers for latinetc!! we did try out me having a gap between each science, and that made quite a difference too.

SO, for science [since i do that bit] we did acids and bases, recapping on chapter 4 of real science for kids chemistry. What an acid and base is, what pH is all about, different indicators [we had prepared cabbage water and also had litmus papers and indicator paper]. I had made a sheet so that we could test our solutions 1 and 2 [dilute vinegar and dilute ammonia] and see what happened to the indicator and litmus, and then use this to determine whether our other 6 solutions were acids or bases, and we also then stuck all of them down. the cabbage water I had in test tubes, and it went such beautiful colours. my favourite was the emerald green with the ammonia :). All the children seemed to have learnt something and been happy with the experiment.

Loved the torn architecture art that z did with them this week, both girls made really lovely pictures. definately ‘portfolio’ art type material . BB again had a recorder lesson, and was v happy to now be playing hot cross buns. me too, as little fly was wearing a bit thin… i heard the middlies recorder ensemble sounding fab as well, and saw some music theory in action. Minimus also occured, they were supposed to march outside, but it was absolutely freezing!! [and no grown up fancied it] so they were let off .

I think that for all the stress and effort we adults put into this session, it is replayed a hundredfold by what the children get out of it, in view of tailored education to a high standard, with individual care. Great friends to do it with as well. Something to be proud of [even if, with migraine on weds i would have prefered to duvet, and in fact by the time i got home, i just couldn't do anything else ]

brownies cancelled for SB, but she did judo. BB continued to be ‘challenging’ but did do loads of jigsaws! SB did a minute bit of mathletics, some dk project book and we all did mycenaeans in SoTW. i have been to mycaenae. it is a shock to realise i went there over 20 years ago tho!! the memory still v fresh.