Predictive proofing!

This is just a wee short one to correct any misconceptions I might have planted! Mum told me today that did I realise that I'd written last time that I'd been teaching S "homophobes"!!! You'll be relieved to hear that certainly not and rather it was homophones and I have learned the lesson not to write my blog on my phone and if I do to be far more careful in proof reading! Sorry!

So far we are having a pretty positive week so I didn't think it would be a bad idea to write a wee entry rather than to go on about the negatives. My girls have both been unwell - one more than the other but thankfully we seem to be coming out the other side and as I write the twins and S are running around the house with toilet paper bandanas on their heads!

Despite S's initial grumblings about having to work whilst his sisters have been watching endless movies snuggled up on the sofa, he has actually been really quite productive working away. I'm noticing how much happier S works when he's not sitting on his bottom. I and no doubt most folk who read this) learn best sitting properly and concentrating. S however seems to learn best standing up and constantly moving! I have read that this can be quite common with people on the autistic spectrum but am still at the stage of being constantly amazed at how true to the books S is behaving! This week we are completing our work on fractions. I'm aware what we are doing is tricky and also more and more aware how maths is all linked and when one element of maths is weak it can affect so many other parts of it. He's getting there though and we have been doing work with the fractions cubes which has helped. In English we have been working on his story and looking at commas and vowels. Unfortunately my computer has been a real burden this week as it seems to have lost his whole story and my work on it!! Groan! We need to replace it but are trying to time things right with finances, internet access etc and it isn't really a simple thing just now! Very frustrating though for S and I who have just lost some really good work!

Anyway, that's all for now. The week is quite mad ahead. I am getting away child free for a night on Friday which I am so looking forward to recharge my batteries spiritually and mentally but which also means I have quite a bit to get through before I go.