Measuring

General 

Elliott was good for the most of today. Just before bed time he got upset because I wouldn't let him watch the iPad as it's school tomorrow. He did calm down though when I gave him the option of either reading or watching the beginning of Strictly Come Dancing results show instead (and he went with the Strictly Come Dancing results show option). 

Activities

In the morning he watched some episodes of Penguins of Madagascar and then he did his measuring homework. He measured the remote control, a Transformer, my phone and various other objects and wrote down their length. Unfortunately we then realised he was meant to measure the lines on the page we'd been writing the objects on and he sounded worried that Mrs Davies would tell him off for getting it wrong. I did ask him more about this and he said he hasn't been told off by Mrs Davies, only Mrs Parfitt last year. I've written a note to Mrs Davies to explain though and asked for another copy of the homework. Especially as he found measuring and writing down the the lengths very easy. After homework we counted the money he's saved in his piggy bank together so we could go shopping for a toy in the afternoon. He'd saved up £7.00. Then we had chicken fajitas for lunch and he eat them really well. 

After lunch we went to Asda and used the coin master to turn his saved coppers into a voucher to spend on a toy and he chose to buy an Optimus Prime Flip Transformer. On the way home we visited Andrea's Mum and Dad again as Harry and Jack Jenkins were visiting and we had fun playing with them. Then it was back home for crackers for tea and some reading of his school book "The Secret Whirlpool", before bath, watching the first part of Strictly Come Dancing Results show and then bed time.