A level exams and other stuff. · Tuesday January 23, 2007 by Ann
Well another week of home education has gone by.
David did his first Sociology and Psychology A levels exams yesterday and today. It will be interesting to see how he has done this time. David is very focused, when he decides to do something, he puts his head down and does it consistently to the best of his abilities. He has asked us to go to college tomorrow night for the parents evening, so it will be interesting to see what they have to say about his progress.
Alice on the other hand does not wish us to go into the parents evening, she says this is her life and her education and she is in charge of it. That’s okay by us too. She will ask if she needs our further involvement as she asks for support and help if she needs it with her course work.
All three of them are home right now. David is chilling out after the exams and talking to his mates on MSN and playing some of the computer games I managed to get from Freecycle
Alice is working on a General Studies assignment, she has to do a power point presentation on an area of conflict.
This morning she has been chatting about the opium production in Afghanistan, she had heard something about it on the news and has been looking it up. We have also been talking about the Freedom of Information Act. She and her dad have also been watching “The Map Man” on ‘UK History’ channel. Since going sailing a couple of years ago along the coast, she has been really interested in navigation and map reading. It also lead to an interest in the geology of the seashores in particular and so she like us, loves the programme “Coast”. This has so much information about the geology, geography and social history of the British Isles.
Yesterday afternoon Alice, Lucy and I went into Birmingham shopping for clothes, talking three year old Nancy with us. Shopping for clothes has always been really difficult for Lucy as clothes often ‘feel funny’ and she cannot bear to wear them. Combining that difficulty with finding something in her very particular style and something that fits well and it becomes very difficult indeed to find jeans/trousers for her. It has got to the stage where every pair of trousers that she had, had got a hole at the knee, so there was no choice we had to go shopping. When we found a pair I was really daft because I didn’t suggest she bought a second pair of them-it could take forever to find another pair! So we have decided when we go in to Birmingham at the end of the month, to meet a friend we’ll call into the same shop and hopefully get a pair. We’ll also hopefully have time to go to the Birmingham Library as they have a brilliant music section and all three of us love going into Birmingham Museum and Art gallery to check out whatever exhibitions are on. We didn’t have time yesterday to do either as we had to be home again in time for Lucy to go to Explorer Scouts. Explorers are going to be making bird boxes apparently, this will fit in nicely with The Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend.
Today we have been looking at Astrology, which has become one of Lucy’s more recent interests. We have also been chatting about conservation, which is a theme that keeps returning. In particular looking at ways we can reduce our ‘carbon footprints’ She is also practising singing. Lucy has an audition this weekend for Youth Music Theatre UK on Saturday. Tonight she’ll be at choir rehearsals again, so that will help.
Lucy and Alice have made a butternut squash soup for a late lunch. It’s a recipe Alice found on the Internet-a brilliant resource for finding enjoyable vegan recipes! So I am off to tuck in to that and some delicious bread.
Fantasy Games-Warhammer and Role playing. On improving symptoms.
