Under the table

Today Charizard decided to do his maths...UNDER THE TABLE.

He was looking at improper fractions, which was tricky. We might try those again. It was great to see Charizard choosing to work hard on his own on some new challenges. We also did some long multiplication, which he struggled with initially but which then came right: what excellent learning.

For history we took out one of the new books we had bought. Jigglepuff asked Charizard to look and find three facts about the Babylonians. He found out that the Babylonians had fought the Assyrians, that then the king had died, and...oh dear. Jigglepuff has forgotten the third fact. She will have to ask Charizard again tomorrow.

After lunch we watched the first episode of COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey. Charizard pointed out how rogue planets - with their molten core, frozen seas and oceans in between - were very like Jupiter's moon Europa, about which we'd watched a documentary last year. Jigglepuff was very interested to learn about Bruno and his visions of the universe, she'd never heard of him before. We'll look forward to watching the next episode next week. It was Charizard who saw the advert and asked to watch it, thanks for suggesting it Charizard!