Oliver started at his new chess club 3C's, what a fabulous club. I was a little worried about Olivia getting bored but she was far from bored as she sat and joined in a conversation about maths and was struck by Fibonacci Numbers and Da Vinci.
Wherever you find a chess board you find people with fabulous ideas and a gentleman named Carl who I was nattering away to was talking about maths and demonstrated Fibonacci numbers to Olivia
Olivia loves maths but she also loves art so the combination of learning the Fibonacci numbers has introduced Olivia to something new in the world of art, she can combine her two greatest loves.
So far she has been working out the Fibonacci numbers with great enthusiasm since she got home, and I will hopefully introduce her to how we can put that into a piece of art work.
Carl also introduced her to the genius of Da Vinci and showed her some you tube videos of the maths within the Mona Lisa Picture, her little brain is spinning with ideas, it will be interesting what she comes up with and learns about numbers and art over the coming months.
So although the chess club is firmly on Olivers radar I really did not expect Olivia to get anything out of watching her brother play Chess but clearly she has and it looks like an environment where all of us can flourish, we felt very welcome, we were shown the ropes and the achievements of the club which are pretty impressive and we are all looking forwards to going back again next week.
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