The excitement of learning!

I'm 3.5 weeks post op now! November seems like a bit of a write off to me but then I'm so much better and so far I think the op has been a success which is great. (athough it's very early days to know this!) Since I last wrote we have got into a great wee routine of us working down at the sofa. I thought the control freak side of me would really struggle to have S at home without the routine of "Independent Learning" and "Together Time" and all the things we have got so used to doing. However, I have been a lot more aware of when S is learning things rather than going through the motions. Admittedly we are not nearly doing the same volume of work as we were but I think the quality of learning has been really good! S has now tackled "money" and "division". Both of these topics he dreaded but has become quite quick at them as the penny has dropped (no pun intended!!). For money it took him over an hour to complete each page. If he was in school there is no way he would have been allowed to spend so long on one task! This is the beauty of home schooling! It might seem that we are not achieving very much but actually we can work until the concepts are understood and then not waste time the next day trying to unpick badly learnt concepts! We did spend A LONG time on money last week but today he completed a task on education city and got 100 per cent which was great! Outwith maths S has been working on his Volcano project. This has been a relatively successful venture! Most of the time I have given S a topic to find out about and left him to it. My perfectionist tendancies have not coped very well with his presentation but to give him his due he has found out about each of the topics and seems to have understood what he has read about. Today, we spent an hour reading about volcanoes today and discussing them and he loved it! He asked so many questions and was fascinated by it all! When S is interested he continually tells you back what he is learning just to make sure he has understood the concept so today the whole time was punctuated with "so basically...". Whilst it was quite a full on session and exhausting for me it was so lovely to see him engaging so much with the topic and material! That was what I loved about teaching in the first place. Forget that I am trained to teach RMPS; to see a child so excited about learning and understanding anything is fantastic! So, I am happy with how things have gone. We haven't done very much formal reading or English but actually we have been reading and comprehending for a lot of the time and I am pleased with how he has begun to show a eal understanding of what we are reading. I'm not sure how the following few weeks will go. As I feel stronger I am aware that I am beginning to want him to do more and at the same time once I am back to full strength I am determined that we start to go out more and that I start to socialise more and in turn S socialises more. The house whilst being a comfort in times of recuperation can also be a bit of a prison and I think for both of our well being we need to get out more!!