Stringbean’s reading has really taken off, I guess she is now at the pretty competent, but not fluent stage. She is dealing very well with the Usborne Young Readers and their ilk. It really does remind of that thing toddlers do, when you can pretty much see them learning things right in front of your eyes. Everytime she picks up a book she seems to have moved on a step, and she is endlessly finding things around the place to read. It’s really quite wonderful.
And finally her reading is catching up with her maths, so she can now read some of the maths questions for herself.
On the topic of maths, are approaching the end of My Pals Are Here 1B, we are doing the money bit. Which sort of feels unnecessary as it’s basic stuff that she is picking up anyway from day to day life. But she wants to finish it off, and it won’t do any harm. In fact it’s required extra mental manipulation, as the book is the Singapore version, so the currency is Singapore Dollars and Cents, so we have flipped between calling them that or just pretending it’s pounds and pence, or calling them pounds but writing Dollars. All entertaining anyway. Will be moving onto Primary Mathematic 2A books after this, which follows the same curriculum, but presents it in different way. Be interesting if it makes any difference to SB.
Other than that, today me and the girls went swimming. Poor old BB doesn’t get to go anywhere near as much as SB used to at this age, and she really loves it. Whilst paying, she was sort of doing an excited little jig, pointing at the pool and going on the behind-the-desk person about swimming, going splash, splash!’ 
After lunch we read one of the Science Stories books about Pasteur, and looked a little bit at pictures of microbes, then did most of jigsaw of a Roman town, where SB regaled me with various bits she new about Romans, she seems to get particularly excited by the Legionnaires.
In between times lately she has been doing loads of Webland, and some bits of Education city.
Later on, she did some Violin and Piano practice with Helen.
There has been a bit of black hole really here lately, SB’s birthday seemed to take out most of a week, with family visits, then preparing for a party, recovering from her party etc. Hopefully get back into normality next week.
