Thoughts on a first week
Well, i wanted to have a go at the Ambleside Curriculum and we have done a week. So far i am pleased - its not caused any friction, the kids have been happy all week with what they are doing, i suppose i mean Fran by that mostly, and i feel [...]

Stop Press!!!!
Fran just read a book! I sat with her and she made her way through most of an Usborne Early Reader Phonics book - some words she knew, some were quite new (like nest, hatch etc) some she hadn’t encountered for a while and remembered and some she sounded out and picked up really [...]

Well thank goodness that’s over
I hate the disappointment of footbal teams going out of competitions. I don’t like football and i don’t like how much people care about it! It upsets me! *has paddy*
On another note, i emailed yahoo over my problems with getting to my group page. Their response?
“we recommend that you try accessing [...]

Keeping going.
It was all slightly harder work today but i think that was more my fault than anything as i was feeling a bit tired and overwhelmed by mess. I seem to function better if the house is tidy.
Anyway, i appreciate that “what worksheets i forced my child to do today” doesn’t make the most [...]

Ammi’s longest ever sentence
“mummy, milk bottle this way please!!!”
Last night Max remarked that Ammi has to be a good year ahead of where Moo was in terms of speech - actually its probably more like 18 months ahead but its so great for us to be really able to talk dispassionately about Moo and how [...]

I’m reading…
George and Sam by Charlotte Moore. This is pretty fascinating on rather a lot of levels for me; first its a description of two very different autistic children, brothers, being narrated by someone who can view them from a level perspective. And secondly because they are the nephews of Fran’s godfather and reading a [...]

Completely different day!
Lol… well today was a definite change from the last few!
Started off with our MP local group which i took a load of fairly simple crafty stuff to. But it all seemed to go down fairly well and then quite a lot of them came back to ours - and stayed till 3.30pm!!!!!!!
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