The Rs washed the car this morning. Or at least they threw wet sponges at each other while I washed it.
Ms R seems to be ‘collecting’ money so that she can buy us all an ice-cream. Last time she counted the copper in her little bag she had twenty-nine pence. Today she tipped it out to count but said there was too much to count. I was busy so not taking a great deal of notice but heard her have a lightbulb moment and decide to put it into piles of ten pence. She called me to help and told me that she had four lots of ten with three pence left over and then after a pause told me that it was forty-three pence. We talk about larger numbers as ’so many lots of’ ten because she seems to understand that concept and later we talked about adding up in tens which she got pretty quickly.
Ms R had rainbows this evening. They spent some time outside and on their way out of the door she yelled for me in a slightly panicky voice and sort of got shuffled along by an adult helper but I told her I’d follow her out. Once out she was fine so after a couple of minutes I told her I was going inside and reminded her where the door was if she needed to come and find me. She raced in a bit later to let me know that they were going to do show-and-tell outside too and that I was to stay inside. I guess I wasn’t needed. She took a First Dictionary book that my Mum gave her and apparently told everyone how to look up a word after I’d explained it to her on the way up.
At bedtime Ms R wanted me to read Tom and the Tinful of Trouble by Nick Sharratt and Stephen Tucker but as I held the book up and took a couple of deep breaths she started for me. She read the first half pretty fluently and then started stumbling over words like ‘and’ and ‘the’ so I took over and read the second half. It’s very fluently written (and we’ve read it about twenty times) so her reading isn’t all about decoding individual words but some of the time she used her fingers to point along the line of words. She’s definately reading the words even if some of them are unknown and being filled by memory of the story which is completely different to Master R who can appear to be reading a story very well to somebody who’s not aware that he’s actually on the wrong page for that bit.
Master R has his eye appointment in a couple of weeks, I can’t imagine what seeing might be like for him but it would be great if something is done to make things look clearer.