Music and maths on the move

Yesterday morning, alone in the car for my quick run up to work, I got tired of the usual inanities of early morning virgin radio, and I switched instead to Classic FM. I arrived at work in a different mood, feeling somehow more centred I supposed.

This morning I asked the kids if they’d like to listen along, and they were game to give it a go. It was an interesting journey – Big was extremely displeased that Small wouldn’t play with her as he was too busy being completely entranced by the music. Guess I’ll be doing that again then!

This evening Small fell asleep. Big wanted to know why my clock in the car said 18:58 which led to some interesting conversations around 24 hour clocks, why when there are 60 seconds and 60 minutes but only 24 hours in a day (and also which hour is the 24th hour – quite diffficult to explain while driving down the motorway, I’m never going to be a car ed fan). Somehow this then became mental arithmetic (started with how to get from 19:07 to a time she would recognise and then I was giving her subtractions to do and we were talking through tens and units and so on) and a recitation of her times tables. I just love the way these conversations evolve although I’d really love for it not to happen on the M1.

Once home, I scooped the sleeping Small into bed – he woke up just long enough to take his cardigan off and then fall asleep on the landing again 😀 Big got herself some supper and then went up to continue reading The Secret Garden (Wordsworth’s Children’s Classics). I passed by and she asked for some help with some of the yorkshire dialect, which then led into a discussion of what was meant by the term ‘heathen’ and somehow into a discussion of the British Empire. Must have been bed time, can’t think why else she’d have been encouraging me to ramble 😉

So I’ve no idea what they’ve done in school, but I do know there’s been a fair amount of education to and from today.

Oh, and in more personal news, the missing front tooth has started to come through. This is the one coming in to replace the one that was damaged at camp a couple of years ago, it’s taken absolutely ages to show as the one next to it fell out and has grown through since the first fell out. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it’s coming through straight 🙁 Guess I’d better get us sorted out with a dentist fairly quickly then.