Wednesday 13th May.

Well the sun has disappeared and the good old English rain has returned. I even had to pop the heating on to take the chill out of the house.
We looked at line graphs today. How to read them, and how to make one. Chloe had no problems with this. She easily worked through the KS3 book. So i got an old holiday brochure out and we looked at the temperature and how much sun each country gets. Then she made a line graph to show this data. We're going to continue along this line on our next session. I like to be everyday stuff into lessons, so that she can see how her learning fits into the real world.

In the afternoon, we continued our work on our animal studies. I had a look through some of our old books and found a great page an animals. It lists all the different classes (mammals,fish,birds,amphibiams and reptiles.) plus it lists all the orders for each class. Which is exactly what i was looking for. Chloe wrote out her first mini book (in rough) explaining how animals are classified, and then she started on her mammal mini book. I'm not sure if we are going to make a lapbook for each class or one HUGE lapbook with all 5 classes in it.
I think i'll just see how it grows.