Tuesday the girls tidied their bedroom. It is shockingly tidy. WOW that room is big 
when you can actually see the floor 
. Weds was a notlatinetc day.
We met up at le ciel rouge, and I immed got stuck in with doing some music theory. SB is still fired up by her success in the grade 2, so is working on the grade 3 book happily. C is also on the grade 3, but having had a years gap since grade 2 she is doing a bit of getting brain back in gear, so we did cabinstepladders for remembering the keys. Because i didn’t give her quite so much attention, and we had used the wrong time sig stickers prev without noticing, and now had to use the wrong ones after we had noticed, BB had quite a meltdown. Tried to persist calmly, as trying to encourage her to get beyond the its-not-as-it-should-be-so-my-world-is-ending response. [a loud one too] she did get beyond it with encourgement and patience, so i thanked her for that, and praised on keeping going. she did one more tiny segment and i encouraged her to call it a day, having ended on a positive bit. [phew] A came a bit later and did some to, and a fair number of kids then thought it might look a bit interesting. I do love how things become interesting when they are doing it together
Merry took the bigger ones off for poetry, which SB really enjoyed, thankyou [but could you link the poem for me] and the 2 littlest [j and BB] did some spelling/first letter matching with M and then got to have extra snack and started on watercolour pencil drawings of chilli plants with Z. I did try and do a tiny bit of french talking with J and BB, but J is v shy about it, and BB took the mood too, so i didn’t persist. next time will take a story instead. [i like to be occupied too ]
Suddenly it was lunchtime! the deependers had arrived too – hooray, and a short pop by by my husband who must have smelled the pasta . BB and J got to do science first with me – making black powder from an internet recipe. [v carefully done and in pairs only] the big’uns were mostly doing the watercolour drawings or spellings with the manor born M. BB and afish were snuggled in with K listening to both french and latin stories [ i think BB had a partic fab day] I took half of the children through making the powder, and then handed over some owl puke to Z and some charts, and i think all the children got to do this with Z. I finally finished the chemistry and wandered around to see what else going on. I think some french number game and also lots of playing/trampolining.
We then tested how flammable our powders were. TBH I was hoping they would be on the less side, but they were even less, so a bit on the disappointing side. Think the bought charcoal perhaps was a weakness, there are other mixture options, and we used boiled water not stale urine! However, i think we all found it great fun, and something a bit exciting. Perhaps another time we will try again but slightly differently. will add some pics
More playing and winding down as ppl left. A melt by BB that i hadnt saved her owlpuke bones, she did manage to calm down in the end, and then get on playing happily again. SB had a fab day being with her friends. we stayed later than planned, gossiping, drinking tea and listening to happy kids.