as zoe’s elder dauhter had a fantastic poetry opportunity, wodensmeet this time was at merry’s. unfortunately em was with lurgy and her car kaput. consequently wodensmeet v much quieter than anticipated! however, f and a off school for half term, and i haven’t seen f fo so long that it was fab 
we started with tea, chatting, girls playing and reaquainting before going into science. i recapped on starch and sugar tests for the benefit of those that had missed the previous experiments and then we launched into the amylase experiments. i think when we get to the end of these foody tests i might write them all in a blog of their own as a resource. i would recommend to other home educators as these are fairly fool proof and fun. tho you do need to mix your own benedicts solution!
anyway, this test was v cool . we had 4 test tubes with starch solution, first 2 with iodine to test for starch, second 2 with benedicts to test for monosaccharides. then put amylase into the middle 2. it made that fab pic and shew that starch is removed/disappears after adding amylase, and that a monosaccharide is made/appears. how cool is that . we then added amylase solution to a starch solution at different temperatures to show that amylase worked best at warm temperatures.
we had a bit more of a break and then merry went through shakespeare’s twelfth night usbourne version of the story, we had a think about it and translated some of the flowery phrases into more straightforward english. the older girls then wrote a diary entry for the day in the eyes of one of the characters, which was an interesting exercise suggested by ams, who got groaned at by all the others .
other than that it was mostly playing, lego for BB and J, who knows for the others 
and merry and i cooed over the delectable B and got in a good natter. It was a lovely day. even if i did then have to drive home in the snow!