Is it not meant to be the case that when your children get older you are meant to get more sleep? To be fair to my lot sleep has been pretty good for the last 4 years but last night was a howler as one of the twins decided to put her music on full blast TWICE in the middle of the night! While she drifted off peacefully to sleep both times it woke me and took me forever to get back to sleep - just in time for the next rendition of songs! Needless to say I have been shattered all day today!
The house move is going quite well I think. I'm at the stage of wanting to hire a skip for all our clutter and am loving the new house as it is so clear! The kids are loving playing in the new house which is lovely and they hate coming back! S and I worked in the new house this morning as we waited for a delivery. This was obviously a little bit too much "outside the box" for S today and it wasn't the easiest work session that we've had but we covered our maths and english topics for the day so I was happy with that.
Yesterday was fab! The day for various reasons was very topsy turvey but S handled this really well. We did lots of domestic moving chores in the morning and then sat down just after 1 to do his school work. I explained to him that he had a list of "jobs" to do and that if he worked really hard he'd manage them all before his siblings got home from school. Boy did he work hard! It was great! He did mental arithmetic, jotter work, a worksheet and some direct teaching from me on maths and then he did his reading, a listening comprehension and then 2 computer programmes on verbs on tenses and appropriate use of verbs! It was interesting to see what he was like in the afternoon as normally we work up until lunch time. He was so much better. It doesn't really give us very long though! This week is a bit abnormal with the move taking a lot of time and so as long as we are covering maths and english, anything else is a bonus!
One thing I am very aware of already this term is how suddenly I no longer feel a pressure to keep him up with all his peers. I am beginning to feel more confident that he is learning and will be keeping up with his peers but that we will be doing things at a different pace and in a different way. I am definitely covering ground often that he is bound to have done before but had just not fully understood and also we are going into more depth in some things than I think he would need to go into at the level he should at school but I am beginning to really appreciate the freedom I have as a home educator to go as far as I think is appropriate and not what some paper says I should do.
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