You see here the factory in its completed state.
The other side of the breakfast table looked like this, with temperature-taking and graph-making progressing nicely (even is Orry pains us all by not using a ruler for his graph-line drawing!):
The task today was to be something like spacial skills / mapping, with them making plans of the house. But things didn't go well as Orry led the naughty and Finn led the upset. The task was kicked into touch and Finn went off for a nap to recover emotionally!
So Orry and Oshin got up to some fine jeel, as they are want to do...!
... If it's not obvious from the picture, they are sat on the bookshelf, with the contents of the bookshelf on the floor (Oshin's doing, with some very good helping from his older brother!). Also in the background, you can see the bucket of paper/craft, which is filling swiftly these days!
The main doing during Finn's nap was making a quick crochet rainbow, which Cori whipped off and then had Orry complete by sewing it into shape - a good job which Orry was very proud of:
After lunch came Maddaght - maths, following through a suggestion plan and lesson created by Finn's teacher, in Manx, of course, with videos and the like.
It was difficult stuff, with the usual results of homework - frustration and a spot of tears! But they got through it and emerged out the far end without any scars:
Finn's teachers have been really good about how they are engaging with the new situation. They are putting a lot of work and thought into it, creating good channels of communication with the parents, to get some sort of feedback on how the children are finding it etc.
It is educational for us to see what 8-year-olds find difficult and need to be taught - the concept of fractions is indeed a tricky on!
In contrast, we've been rather miffed at what Orry's teacher is suggesting for him/his class - she created a PowerPoint of counting to five in Manx. We didn't bother with that - it seems hard to believe that anyone in Orry's class can't count to five by now, seven months into their Manx education!
So Orry is around for Finn's 'lessons' as well, even if he gets to do a lesser version of it, or just to draw in a corner when he's bored of it.
It's Orry trying a bit of fractions in the second picture here, but really his task was one we spotted earlier, when he started counting in order to put some numbers in order (obviously only knowing how to do it by where they come in the sequence of counting). So Cori made a sheet of flowers to count and number, and then some sums (when at the lunch-table, pictured!), all of which had to be cut out and ordered - favourite things for Orry!
We try and do a bit of low-level maths at the table, and so today it was mainly asking which fractions were larger or smaller - "2/3 or 2/4?" "1/2 or 3/6?" etc. We also introduced Orry to division, so that's another one we're going over, for numbers only between 3 and 12 or so at the moment.
As well as friends, Nicola and Beccy T, dropping off some food earlier in the week, Chloe also dropped round some things, taking an order then sending a message that she'd done it. I came downstairs to find this - a lovely sight!
We've established a new regime for the end of the day: finish work at 4.30pm (I start at 8.30am), and come down Joe Wicks exercise, followed by cooking (as the boys do their drawing with Mo Willems) and dinner, and then Yoga afterwards. So it was this evening, and the starting of a new book - of fairy tales from France, starting with the Golden Dragoon & his trusty flying horse in battle with the Night...!
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