Reading David Copperfield and painting like van Gogh

Thursday 3 October

This morning we read some more David Copperfield and then had a spelling test. Chapter Two is called “I Observe” and David talks about his earliest memories of his mother and Peggotty, their servant. It is very funny.

In the afternoon we made paintings. I painted a scene with sail boats by Matisse, with lots of dabs of pink and blue. Jude painted A Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. I really like Matisse and van Gogh’s paintings, they make everything so beautiful and colourful. We painted all afternoon, at the table. It takes a long time to paint in dabs and patches, so we haven’t finished our paintings yet.

Friday 4 October

In history we learned about the Stone Age. Nobody knows very much about the Stone Age, because it happened such a long time ago. Luckily the people of that time made paintings in caves for us to refer to. Mum read about the Stone Age to us, and then we answered questions from the book, and drew pictures of the cave drawings. Most of the cave drawings were of animals.

At lunchtime we had crackers and watched a program about antiques, which we all like, especially Jude. We have our favourite antiques experts, and it’s fun to see how ordinary things can be worth a lot of money.

After lunch we carried on painting our reproductions. I found it difficult to fit every detail into the picture.

Saturday 5th October

Today Mum, Jude and me went on the bus to the museum and art gallery in town. They had Stone Age artefacts in glass cases. It is fascinating to see little pieces of the past all dug up from underground, forgotten for years and now sitting in a display box.

The museum also had an exhibition of different sorts of shoes from history, baby shoes, dancing shoes, working boots. I liked the red glittery dancing shoes, and the video of the fashion show. Some of the shoes were really old and fragile.

Near the entrance of the museum there was a giant elephant made out of cardboard, which was amazing! We went in the gift shop and looked at all the souvenirs, they had books and pencils and old coins and toys from history.

Monday 7 October

Today we had separate lessons because Jude is three years older than me, so she needs to learn different maths. Jude and Mum worked downstairs on ratios and long multiplication, while I worked upstairs. I read my Sabrina reading book, practised typing on the computer, and then practised playing music on the keyboard.

I was trying to learn a song called Beautiful Brown Eyes, but it didn’t sound right. So far I can only play music with my right hand, which is on the treble clef. Hopefully one day I will be able to play with both hands at the same time.

In the afternoon it was my turn to do maths. I studied averages, which is mean, median and mode. I found this difficult because it’s really complicated. Median I find easier to remember, because it sounds a bit like “middle” and that’s what it’s all about. The other two are something different.