And The Weather For Today Is...

This evening, I was reading a Yahoo 7 article about an ongoing whale rescue in south Sydney, when Beth took a sudden interest in the weather section.

We looked at the major Oz and NZ cities first.

Then she wanted to know about the weather in other parts of Australia.

It was a good thing I didn't get annoyed, because I learnt some nifty new things myself. Such as that ACT is more than Canberra. There are other regions like Hall, Curtin and Jervis Bay, and the hottest of these is Curtin (with a low of 22 deg and a high of 38! Gasp!).

This led to an inspired briefing about how Australia is divided into regions like a jigsaw puzzle is divided into pieces (NSW, ACT, VIC, WA, TAS, SA, NT, Norfolk Island & Queensland), each of which has its own capital city.

Then she asked me how to spell AUSTRALIA, and requested I write it in jot-the-dot fashion in both upper and lower case, so she could learn to write it herself.

And that's how a lot of learning takes place with Beth. Pretty much self-directed and just-in-time. Hopefully she will be able to learn just as well at school.