Hands Up 4 Home Ed · Tuesday February 13, 2007 by Rose
Ok, so I didn’t manage two posts yesterday!
The science workshop went quite well, with JJ and SJ enjoying it – though SJ did have a meltdown at one point over something. With several other kids in the room on “the spectrum” no one batted an eyelid, which was great.
JJ took some initiative and settled down on the computer to a number of online learning things. I’d given him some links for some games on I Know That, such as http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=Paintball. He also had a go on the games on the BBC RAW site http://www.bbc.co.uk/raw/gamesandquizzes/. After that, he spent some time on one of his favourite sites, the Red Box government site (http://www.redbox.gov.uk/). Those politicians had better watch out!
This morning our HE group got together, and the children each got involved in craft, doing their “Hands Up 4 Home Ed” creations (http://www.handsup4homeed.blogspot.com/). Some of the wishes the kids came up with were brilliant; my favourite was the slogan “down with force, up with choice”!
Interestingly, SJ’s wish was “that schools could ban bullying so that kids who HAD to go to school didn’t get bullied there”.
WD wished for more bouncy castles… I think he missed the point somehow!
We’re busy reorganising things in preparation for the next addition to our family, but it is also proving interesting to see how little SJ seems to have taken in from the birth of WD 4 years ago, and we are therefore visiting the interesting subject of biology and how babies are created, and delivered…
