Category: Neurodivergence in Children
Pythagoras with cuisenaire
courtesy of 1000 Playthinks 🙂 Found this the other night when I was tidying, and decided I’d inflict it on Big. Expected her to wail and moan and wriggle, instead she practically ripped it out of my hand and we started working through the puzzles difficulty level 1. We got to one about pythagoras, and…
I love our library (again)
Tonight Big read Night You Were Born (Orchard Picturebooks) to me. We got it at the library earlier this week, when they were selling off lots of books, 6 for £1. And as you know, we’ve a shortage of books here 😉 Anyway, tonight we talked about punctuation marks, I said things like ‘that’s a…
And the rest of the day
Apart from dictating her experiment today, Big has done lots of work on maths. Completely unprompted and with only a little guidance at that – she found a box of post office toys (tried to find a link, but elc appear to have discontinued it so as to be able to fit in more boxes…
the experiment – the results
Purpose We wanted to do an experiment to see how the sun heats different coloured things up differently. Hyphothesis We expected the black jar to be the warmest. Materials. We had three clear glass jars. A sheet of black card, and a sheet of foil. Method. We put 1 pint of water in each jar.…
Listening
to Big reading her own bedtime story (Kitty Helps Out (Kitty & Cat Lift the Flap S.)) out loud to Tim 🙂 The hands off approach is finally paying dividends. I know she’s cracked it by herself, she knows she’s cracked it by herself, and she is getting more and more adventurous on what she…
OK, now I'm scared.
It’s been a busy morning, with Small playing happily on cbeebies with Mr Tumble, having previously done some fabric land game he found. He came charging in with instructions that he’d printed out about paper weaving, so I got him the bits he needed and he did a tiny bit of that, before declaring he…
And finally, Big's day.
Has been rather up and down. She seems somewhat emotional and confrontational atm, and I’ve been somewhat preoccupied with some work I needed to finish. It’s not a good combination 🙁 Nevertheless, we’ve had some good times today. I particularly enjoyed setting her up on the laptop to work on some more programming with kpl,…
Birthday!
Bit of an anti-climax actually. Tim and I off out to work, and Sarah in charge of the children. Despite my best efforts I didn’t get back particularly early, but Big tells me she had a good day. We did family presents after her bath, and she was thrilled with a rainbow IKEA candle as…
Birthday outing
Celebration part the third! This is getting to be one long celebration, and Big is loving every little bit of it. Having her oldest friend stay overnight, as he has done rather a lot of times in the past, ought to be straightforward and it did used to be. However, we didn’t used to have…
Birthday part the second
given that presents on Thursday night count as part one 😉 Long day though first, as there was lots to be done. Small had a hearing appt first thing this morning, so he and I were out bright and early (well, 9.30, which is bright and early for a Saturday I think 😉 ) and…