Quick update... · Monday June 25, 2007 by june
Well… James finished his painting, with excellent results. He also finished his writing. This was a very good story (and well told) but he still has a problem working out where to put commas, and with his spelling. The spelling, however, is much better than anything he would have done a year ago – the problems are mainly with words that have two spellings, (eg. “there” and “their”). Today he did a GCSE maths paper, Toe by Toe, played music, edited his writing, read his book, did some electronics, and looked at his bowl ( but didn’t actually start working on it again).
Liz has finally got moving with her story. She had to research everything first, which I guess is a good learning experience in itself, but it did slow things down quite a lot. She has been doing more work on her clay bowls and playing with a magnet kit, reading her book, and playing music.
We had a strange day today, it didn’t start well at all (I’m not going to go into details) and I had a very stressful morning. As a result I decided that we wouldn’t go to the Home Ed group. So I’m not very popular :-( I hate it when I have to make a decision like this. As it turns out my iffy stomach in the morning, has turned into severe lower back pain, and I don’t quite know how I would have managed to drive all that way home feeling like this. I now have to do the music lesson run this evening – and that is worrying me – but at least it isn’t as far as the Home Ed group, and I’ll just be sitting in the car when I’m there. I’ll take a hot water bottle for my back and hope it turns out OK.
The weekend was busy, as usual. All three went to the folk group on Friday night, Liz had orchestra on Saturday morning, James spent Saturday with his friends. We all watched Dr Who in the evening. Sunday was wet. We went to Grandma’s house and watched the video of “Holes” – absolutely brilliant film, and one of our favourites.
