A three blog sort of day?
I’m going to try to do the "in brief" thing again for a while to help me keep a track of what she does. I’ve also suggested that she keeps a note of what she does each day by dictating it to me, with a view to her keeping her own records when she’s more confident and thus knowing which bits of her day actually do count as educational!
So, today. JJs was hot and noisy and everyone seemed to be out of sorts so we gave up after a bit under an hour! The garden, in contrast was cool and breezy so we pootled round doing very little until the post arrived with her Junior Brain Training for DS. She likes it. No, wait, she REALLY likes it! it’s not as taxing as Brain Training or Big Brain Academy but she can do it unassisted and, for her, that is Very Important. She has played on it for several hours.
She read to me this evening with something fast approaching confidence and competence. Okay so it’s an "easy reader" type book that came with a CD so she knows it but she was genuinely reading it and enjoying it and read both the stories in the book before she started to tire. This is a Big Thing! Then she requested something sciencey so we did a page on good and bad diets which lead into that un-plannable discussion ed thing where we discussed our own lifestyle and how we could do better if we tried a bit harder. So she wants meal planning and more oportunities to excercise and, being a good mummy (sometimes) I’m going to do my best to facilitate!
I think she is shifting back to wanted a little structure again now. We have been in the doldrums for quite some time really, which has happened before, and will happen again, and it always gets me mildly worried that it’s all going wrong when in fact really it’s all going very right, she’s just taking time to assimilate stuff. Hence from struggling to read a page or two she can suddenly manage a book without tears or tiredness. Hence she then read all the instructions on her page of science stuff, and copied out all the answers herself, without even a teeny tiny wobble. So I shall just stop worrying again should I? For tonight anyway.
