A Good Day!

I made it out tonight so feel a bit like a new person - having had grown up conversation outwith the four walls of our house!  That combined with a trip to the park with the 4 kids after school has made it a lovely day.

On Saturday I asked S what he wanted to learn in maths this week and he requested the 6 and 7 times table so today I was all prepared!  Unfortunately S's enthusiasm wasn't quite so hot!  I'm definitely picking up that S is not a morning person and takes a good while to warm up!  Rather than have a huge battle to begin the day I suggested we started with Education City - a computer programme we are using which he loves!  This went down really well.  Thankfully I'm getting to know it pretty well and directed him to a game on "time" that I knew he would manage and would be good revision for what we covered last week.  He then wanted to do more so I moved him onto a game on multiples.  He still wanted to do more so I picked what i thought would be a really basic game on vowels and consonants to discover that he didn't know the difference!  I'm sure he would have been taught this but think it has been lost with his memory difficulties!  Whatever - he loved the games and it certainly worked to warm him up.

We ended up having a really productive morning with reading, language work, maths (6x table sorted!) and then science where we made a volcanic eruption (or "interruption" as he insisted in calling it!).  I wouldn't say S was on the most co-operative form but we actually got through a lot of learning and were able to stop at lunchtime which I am really pleased about! 

So hopefully tomorrow will be another positive entry!  It would be so good to think we were beginning to settle into a routine.  I certainly don't feel quite as exhausted just now and am speeding up in my preparation and more aware of what is and isn't going to work with him without having to trawl through resources for hours!  I am aware there are some big big gaps but have got some ideas tonight from a teaching friend and am inspired to put some into action!

Off to watch some Lost before calling it a day!