“How do you know when you can read?”

Lyddie (nearly 7) asked me this last week, and I thought it a fascinating question. I answered with words to the effect of: “I think it’s when written words start making sense – when you can tell what they’re saying. Is that what you meant?”
She said: “Sort of… but what about when only some of [...]

Scales, pictures, strawberries and hedgehogs

We’ve had this old set of weighing scales for about 20 years now: they’ve taught all of the children about weight:

And about working together to find things out:

Even setting things in size and weight order:

It’s not something they have access to all the time: the scales live on quite a high windowsill in the kitchen, [...]