Magnets

Well, I think it's fascinating....

....and as usual, if I can be enthusiastic, then Milly has to be interested too.


Now, just have to learn how to be enthusiastic about fractions...

Silk Painting

Today we met with other home educating families in South West Leicestershire at an artists studio in Hinckley to do some silk painting.
This was a new craft to both Emily and me, I must admit I found it quite frustrating to sit back and watch and really wanted to have a go myself.

After planning their designs on paper, the design was traced onto the silk with silver and gold pens before being painted. Emily had some difficulty in deciding what to draw, opting initially for an exact replica of what the artist had demonstrated. At least this served to remind me that at school she would be very compliant and would be lost in the system, following instructions exactly and losing her own identity; these reminders are comforting at times! She decided in the end to draw shapes on her silk in an abstract pattern.

Light

Emily and her Dad have been working on the topic of light at weekends. Yes she'll happily work at weekends...very different from her brother and sister who went to school in the week and believed weekends were solely for sleeping and playing.

They started just after Xmas by making a stained glass window out of sweet wrappers, and then went on to make a kaliedoscope from a kit.
This week they have made a periscope out of a couple of cat food boxes (cat food boxes seem to feature highly in everything around here!), a tube and 2 acrylic mirrors.