Category: Neurodivergence in Children
Resistance is futile.
Small is continuing with his reading – he has been practising (probably without realising it) while reading his new Power Rangers Annual 2009: Operation Overdrive (Annual) (£1 from Tesco bargain. Although I wish I’d bought more copies of the Doctor Who ones that I picked up for step nephews, as they’d all gone by the…
Mixed day
After the post this morning we retired to the kitchen for some more maths. Small did another 20 additions with the base 10 blocks, and we found what level he begins to struggle at, so now we know where we need to be working 🙂 Big was another story. We’d been doing fractions at school,…
Big's plan
Sitting down with Big to work out what she thinks she ought to be doing during this home ed lark. This is being typed pretty much as we speak, so will be somewhat disjointed 🙂 We both think that maths should be a regular activity, as maths gets easier if you practise it. She wants…
Cookbook correction
It’s this one: The Children’s Step-by-step Cook Book – I found it this morning in one of the stashes of stuff still unhomed after the christmas excess. She was very pleased to see it, but too busy making flowers to look through for a recipe for lunch, so I guess it’s sandwiches again. Small agreed…
A very quiet day
Today has been a very quiet day, not least because when I went to get up to sort out the table Small had “poured milk all over!”, I made it to the landing, grabbed my dressing gown off the rail and then fell over, very ungracefully and in slow motion, backwards, staggering back through the…
Defensive orgo planning
For pretty much as long as she has been able to talk, Big’s last question of the day has been “what are we doing tomorrow?” and my standard answer is “I don’t know yet”. I’m not a person who lives by plans, and my children are, so I figure that this time around with home…
Reading is all I'm up to
Feels like someone has pulled my brain out of my ears and replaced it by slightly too much cotton wool, which is pressing uncomfortably on my ear drums and making thinking far too difficult. So I have done next to nothing yesterday and today, except a little light reading. I’m on a quest to find…
Endings and beginnings.
Small has finished school now. He’s very happy. I said goodbye to a batch of children today, and mainly managed not to cry, although a couple of them got to me. Big and I have our last day tomorrow, last day of term. It should be fun, although once again bittersweet. And then it’s full…
Fun ways to learn about parallel lines
This was our maths lesson for the day today 🙂 I’ve had to remove the embedded instructable movie as it was causing problems for IE users, but the project is the Super-cool easy 6 pointed snowflake – More DIY How To Projects It seemed to go down rather well, or at least it did after…
Buy Nothing Day | Saturday November 29th 2008
Buy Nothing Day | Saturday November 29th 2008 Saturday November 29h 2008 is Buy Nothing Day, It’s a day where you challenge yourself to switch off from shopping and tune into life. The rules are simple, for 24 hours you will detox from consumerism and live without shopping. Anyone can take part provided they spend…