Monday · Monday September 11, 2006 by june
We’re still very much easing our way back into Home Education having had a busy summer.
Mondays are always the worse morning of the week. No one wants to get out of bed, me included, and the house is usually a mess after the weekend chaos. So it is always a pretty disorganised start to the week.
We are working on a new system for planning the day – more on that later – so today was more organised, and everyone was up and about much earlier than is usual on a Monday. Helped by the fact that ‘The H’ left for London early this morning.
James was the last one out of bed. He was extra tired having been to a camp over the weekend. He started the day by reading Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz. He is working his way through the Alex Rider books. These are brilliant books for young people like James who have dyslexia, the writing is straightforward, the plot linear, they are easy to read and yet there is still enough of an interesting story to keep a 16 year old reading. Then he followed that up by doing work on gradients from his Maths book.
Liz’s morning was full of finishing things off from before the holidays. Mainly sticking loose pieces of art work into her sketch book. She played her flute (a tisket a tasket…) . Then she did a section of her maths book – she is reviewing multiplication just now.
The afternoon was a bit of a rush. We had to go to a nearby town to buy trainers for Liz, for tennis, and a music book, for her flute lessons. So that took longer than it should – the shoe shop seems to exist in a different time bubble than the rest of the world.
Came back, and James played his accordion for a while. We are still doing lots of music. Both James and Liz are enjoying learning and playing their instruments. I haven’t managed to find a keyboard/piano teacher for James yet (which is on my list of things to do this month) so we are continuing music reading work ourselves using Usborne’s first book of the keyboard. We are planning to have a ‘lesson’ every Monday evening, and he is doing fine.
Liz worked on her comic, which is left-over work from before the summer. She’s nearly finished, so you’ll be able to have a look soon.
So that was Monday. I even did some washing (well we found Tom’s sweatshirt still festering in his schoolbag where it had been hiding since Friday so – so I had no choice), but the washing-up still needs doing.
