Tag: reeling, writhing
Books finished today
Right-brained Children in a Left-brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child Jeffrey Freed. Borrowed this one from Kirsty following ponderings on Small, who most definitely doesn’t fit into standard assessments of learning styles or behaviours. I don’t know whether he’s right brained though, as he cheated on the test I gave him to…
Every park needs a pirate.
So we provided one. He wasn’t this sad throughout the whole day, this was because of the sticks in the ground – they were for rounders, but he felt it was deeply wrong to shove things into the ground, and I had to remonstrate to get him to leave them there. On some levels, he’s…
Small is reading.
After a long chat with Tim’s brother last night, Tim and I came to the conclusion that Small needs whole word recognition, that phonics is not going to be the way forward for him. A has been doing that a small amount at school with him too, but today he sat and read Read at…
too many tears
I keep thinking I’ve cried about enough and then someone says something nice, or I catch the eye of another member of the family and I’m crying all over again. Then again, we did difficult things today – went to the funeral home and saw the body in a coffin. I really didn’t want to…
English is too hard to read for children | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk
English is too hard to read for children | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk Monkey, asparagus, spinach, caterpillar, dwarf, banana, handkerchief, pliers, soldiers, stomach, petal and telescope have all been included on the long list of words that baffle children because they contain letter combinations that are more commonly pronounced in a different way. Interesting article…
What a difference a day makes
when you leave your laptop switched off 🙂 It’s still switched off. I’m borrowing Tim’s machine, while he’s out shopping and the grots are bathing. I’ve really enjoyed the freedom, haven’t felt that the day got away from me at all. Well, apart from the first hour or so I spent sleeping after the grots…
A day of packages
I had so many good intentions today. Well, at least I got the car serviced 🙂 Let’s see. I wanted to clear out bits of the dining room – Tim managed to hoover in there at least. I pulled a couple of bits out and I have a big pile of stuff to drop off…
the eighth result
Now, how long is it going to be before I join the select crew of Wizard Whimstaff results in google? 😀 Tim took Big out today, and they went to wilkos and bought Wizard Whimstaff’s Hilarious Handwriting (aka Basic Skills: Handwriting: Ages 6-7 (Basic Skills)) and his Toady Times Tables: Magical Skills Level 1 (Magical…
teaching themselves
this morning, Small has learnt from numberjacks that 6 can be split into two 3s. (I’m not going to promise that he knows he can do that with six things mind 😉 ) Big is sitting on the floor counting her money and exchanging pounds in change for pound coins. Her arithmetic is improving rapidly…
is it too soon
to claim the day has improved? Perhaps I’d better stick with it’s improving 😉 After a traumatic half hour on Small’s part, when someone mentioned lunch to him, and he realised he hadn’t had breakfast (it *was* offered, but he was too busy being read to, then drawing, then dancing :roll:) and of course, you…