“How reading made us modern”
just watching this now… prize quote so far, speaking as if it’s some strange archaic idea "reading and writing were considered seperate skills" No, really?
Lots of sweeping statements and not a lot of how reading actually does make us "modern", bit like the one the other week about why reading is so important which really didn’t break any news either. Not quite sure waht I was hoping for but certainly less fluff!
But anyway. Today has been a good one in teh main. Expensive, but good. Having bought pink ear defenders and "hello Kitty" speakers so she can listen to MP3s without messing with headphones I then went for tyres. £140 later I had a full set of new, legal ones!!! Whilst still reeling from that I did the shopping and then went and lay down in a darkened room to recover 
This afternoon was a small dyslexia event locally which the LEA lady had invited me to. I declined the seminar part as they were both aimed at secondary age facilities although aparently I should have gone to the assistive technology one as it was very hands on (or as Coral put it "lots of stuff to play with") but I did spend some time talking with various people and came home with various "grippies" for pens to see if anything was going to get her to hold a pen more happily (a really odd looking one has won great aproval) and some "egg timers" which have been a big hit as somehow racing the timer to put stuff away is much more fun and "only" having to do puzzles for 5 minutes is much less daunting than having a set number of questions to complete. Hoping that the novelty of timers won’t wear off for some time.
this afternoon she read to me, did several simple sudokus and multiple pages of times tables. Oh, and rediscovered her floor and her bed which seemed to have dissapeared under masses of clothes and cuddlies. so, yes, a good day!
sounds v positive. wail at not seeing you at bday weekend though. have to arrange summat
Comment by HelenHaricot — February 16, 2009 @ 10:29 pm
also wailing about birthday weekend,really rather naffed off about that, of all the weekends of the year, why did she have to pick the only one I had something planned!!!!
Comment by tbirdanni — February 16, 2009 @ 10:43 pm