“Hey Mum, five and five is ten…”

“So it is.”
“And three and three is six. And six and five is eleven!”
“Yes! How did you know that?”
(I know she ‘knows’ that – we’ve done various bits of number work – it’s an ongoing thing – but I didn’t think she had those sums fresh in her mind right now and anyway, she seems [...]

Reading again

Lyddie wants to play some of her favourite computer games – online. This means she needs to be able to interact with the other players, which means she needs to be able to read everything they’re saying to her.
“So help me learn then,” she said.
“I will then,” I replied.
We started pulling books [...]

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, [...]