I am still not quite used to just how much I am needing the school holidays these days! In a relatively short time I have gone from being a full time stay at home mum who found the school holidays more like work and saw the first week of term as holidays to now - still a stay at home mum (a bit confused as to what exactly my role is) who loves the holidays so much and enjoys the chance to lose one role and enjoy fully relaxing with the kids!
The holiday was great! It highlighted to me once again just how tired S was before the holiday. Retrospect is a fine thing and seems to be teaching me the same lessons repeatedly - when am I going to learn them?? I have been teaching S way beyond his level and am determined this term to teach him more appropriately. Surely this might help to stop the lack of cooperation I am beginning to dread!
Today was a good start. The first task was too hard so with my new found attitude we abandoned that straight away and changed track. He then flew through his maths, language and reading. We tried to finish the morning making windmills. We are going to look at energy for the next wee while and I had already changed my plan due to the weather. The windmill was hopeless! My gut reaction was to get him to do something else but I decided not to move the goalposts for him and call it a day. He was positive, I was positive, he'd done some learning, I reckon that's not too bad a first day!
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