Making it up

How lite is fire
How hot is fire
How cold is ice
How fast is the sun
How slow is the earth
How good is Federer

Yes, the last one made me laugh too.

I should point out that although I asked him to find pen and paper to write these down, he told me that he was already in the middle of making a tardis model and he would write them on the side. So he did. In blue pencil, with the spelling as you see it, and the letter c in ice reversed.

I did ask for some further explanation on what some of the questions meant, and was told that how lite is fire is actually how bright, how much of the room would it light up. How fast is the sun is a question about how fast it is at burning things and how slow is the earth is how slow does it move around.

So there you go.

In between writing these down and getting ready to go out, he also decided he wants to learn french, mainly because Big found her french exercise book from school and decided to speak to him in french, which unsurprisingly he didn’t understand.

So once at the library, he chose a number of books, which were:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid,
Quidditch Through the Ages,
Usborne Internet-Linked French for Beginners with CD (which he has taken to bed with him!) and I suggested
Journey To The Moon (Maths Adventures) which I thought he might find interesting.

Since we got home, he’s listened to the french tracks on the dvd rom (think maybe we shouldn’t have pressed play media when he put it in the media centre, but there you go) and then taken one of his new exercise books to bed with him, along with the Learn French book, so that he could write down in his new learning journal (a Montessori idea that I thought might inspire them) the french words he’s learned so far.

So that seems to be working well for him then!