We've got that Friday feeling!

We really both have that Friday feeling!! The sun is out (well, intermittently anyway) and the weekend is fast approaching and motivation has disappeared! Days like this in home ed are still a bit of a dilemma to me. The trained teacher in me wants to persevere with my plan, complete the week "properly" and not give in to the strong desire to down tools and go do something else. The mummy in me however is seeing a tired boy and a tired mummy paying lip service to education today and thinking that rather than sitting at the desk in body only we should call it a day and head out. In fact, just writing this I think we might just do that! We have had a productive week. We have completed our second full maths workbook of th academic year. For me, this gives me a huge sense of achievement as S's teacher. When he started home ed I ad to backtrack on where the school had said he was. We have now more than caught up I think and are ready to start p6 work almost a full term early :) Englsh is not so secure but working with a child with specific language difficulties presents daily challenges and my aim is to instil in S a love of stories (not reading necessarily but just enjoying losing himself in a different world!) and also an ability to use writing to get through life! We will struggle on with spelling and grammar! In topic our Earthwormery has produced another wee worm so S now keeps an eye on the worm wry, watering and feeding which is good for him to have a bi of responsibility. We started looking at "computers" learning what a CPU is and what RAM is and when the first computer was invented. I am completely out of my depth here!!! We did move on to learn how to format a document with a picture in it so that was fun. Other than at we have continued with our bible study on Abraham and looked at the concept of "covenant" this week which was good and we had really interesting conversations around that and following God's promises through the Old Testament and seeing them being fulfilled. We have also started to write a story about superheroes that we will write together. I have made up a superhero and S has made up two. Together we will write about their adventures and eventually make a wee movie or comic! Finally, yesterday we wen on a great 5 mile walk with friends. We are pulling back a wee bit on home ed network activities as S is struggling with them but will keep on meeting with our friends and we had a great day yesterday at Dumfries House. S was shattered at the end. So, actually, we've done quite a lot this week so I think we can with a clear conscience head to the shops :)