I hadn't thought we'd done much, so I was scratching my head a bit to work out what had been so enjoyable (so that we could, perhaps, repeat it). I asked DH what his recollection was.
She'd been to the Allotment with DH, twice; She helped DH with putting the base down on the new Garden Girls run; we'd made cheese scones. There had been a lot of homework - maths puzzles, comprehension, reading, and there had been lots of teacher-mistakes in (I was seething!). We'd watched some TV; she came to Air Rifles with us; we played a couple of games of Hide and Seek. She'd played on the xylophone I bought to put in the chicken run; she'd tried to teach the chooks to eat seeds from the xylophone; she'd tried to get the Girls to fly up on to her outstretched arm. She'd read most of the first chapter of A Bear Called Paddington out loud, and I'd read th elast couple of pages to her.
We'd done some work on Space and she used my laptop to so her research She likes it because it has a touchscreen. We tried to help her remember the planet names, as she was mispronouncing a couple: Plunto instead of Pluto, Mercy instead of Mercury . To help her remember Pluto, I told her to think of Mickey Mouse's dog, and said "Hey Pluto!" in a Mickey Mouse voice. It sort of worked, except everytime she said Pluto, she said it in the same voice as I had used. She was very upset on Pluto's behalf to find that it wasn't classed as a proper planet any more.
I taught her (or attempted to teach her) the mnemonic My Very Excited Mother Just Served Us Noodles to help her remember the order of the planets. To help I was trying to get her to picture her own Mum being excited andholding a big dish of noodles. This is where it stopped working, because SP was adamant she didn't like noodles so her Mum wouldn't give her any, and her Mum wouldn't be excited about serving noodles anyway.
She popped to the shop, and she borrowed DH's old phone to use while hers was out of action. She was very excited that it had facial recognition (which didn't work when she tried it wearing a Minions hooded dressing gown).
She's most excited because our youngest DGD is coming next week for a couple of days. They haven't seen each other for over 3 years. I hope it all goes well.
