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We had French toast today for lunch, to make up for not having had pancakes yesterday. Freddy very nearly had pancakes yesterday; the Beavers were supposed to make them last night, but the cooker in the Scout Hall died. I considered making pancakes today, but decided it was a bit too much hassle with Toby wanting to be in my arms all the time, so opted for French toast instead. I’ll make an extra-big batch next year

Barney slept fairly late, having been at St. John Cadets last night, but although George had been out at SJA Badgers, he woke up early - again complaining that his stomach hurt. He felt slightly warm to the touch too, but announced “I think I have enough energy to manage eating breakfast”, and seemed to recover quickly after that. After breakfast, we had a look at the history of mapping, and talked about how maps were created many years ago, and what tools were available - compasses, dividers, sextants, etc. We looked up sextants on-line to see how they worked. Then somebody needed a small ruler for something, and none could be found (there are at least six in the house somewhere, so I had a bit of a rant about things not being put away properly. George and Freddy read about Jupiter in their book about the solar system, and then looked up other books to see what else they could find out about Jupiter.

(This reminded me about Barney, when he was 8 or 9 years old, telling us - and everyone else at the party we were attending - “My stomach is like Jupiter.” When asked why, he replied, “Because it’s a gas giant.” :roll:)

Barney, George and Freddy did some maths, while Jack went off to look for rulers (he says he knows where they are, but he didn’t bring any of them back). Freddy’s learning about symmetry, a topic that was always popular with Barney and George. Barney worked through a page of simultaneous equations, and found them easy. Freddy did some more English, learning about titles and introductions, and George learned the names of clothing items and colours in French, made a computer picture using dots, and finished some geography he’d started yesterday (about coastlines).

Meantime, I had a look at the Schools Surplus website, where I found they were selling rulers by the dozen. Not worth placing an order just for rulers though, is it? - so I found a few other things to buy too

The kids sat down to watch a dvd, I lay down with Toby, hoping that once he fell asleep I’d be able to get up and tidy up (didn’t happen). Then the boys’ friend R arrived and they played for an hour or so before dinner (spag bol). Barney has just been left at Scouts, where he fell outside the hall (scraped hands and a bit shaken, but otherwise okay, apparently) and George has just arrived back from Cubs, where he showed everyone his ceramic Harry Potter badge/magnet (depends what you stick to the back of it), his dinosaur skeleton, and his origami collection (I did take photos of that, must get them on the computer soon) - so that’s the Artist badge and the Collector badge taken care of