{"id":24717,"date":"2018-06-05T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/?p=24717"},"modified":"2018-06-07T21:53:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T20:53:30","slug":"week-five-of-home-education-the-one-where-things-felt-more-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2018\/06\/05\/week-five-of-home-education-the-one-where-things-felt-more-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Five of Home Education – The One Where things Felt More Difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was definitely something about this week. I do not know whether it was because a family The Sensory Seeker has become attached to went on holiday (thus causing him change), the fact I had so much to do, less structure or what but he was most definitely more hard work and more reluctant to work. It was the first time when I really felt `oh my! What have I done?!\u2019 and had to stop myself from saying the words `do you want to go back to school?\u2019\"mom<\/a><\/p>\n

On the Monday<\/strong> morning the boys started with filling in their puzzle books before we headed off to Wetherspoons to have breakfast with the ladies who had run the half marathon at the weekend. This gave the boys plenty of opportunity to talk to other adults, and as it was such a lovely sunny day we ate it in the gardens. We then raced off to try out a new creative group which was advertised as being for young children but older ones were welcome. When we arrived though they were far too young. As we were over that way anyway and it was a nice day we went to the park. Again the stares – to the point where I thought a toddler was going to fall off the climbing frame because the guy who was meant to be looking after him was too busy looking at my boys! I was super impressed with their attempts to do the monkey bars both ways (they go upwards) and the 10 year old worked out that they needed to be able to pull themselves up more to achieve it. \"boy<\/a>This was then followed by a trip to soft play where we made new friends. It was also one of the boys\u2019 birthdays and his mom had bought cake! We were super excited to see that our `This is Rocket Science book\u2019 (by Emma Vanstone) had arrived (ISBN 978-1-62414-524-751999). After school hour\u2019s one of the 10 year old\u2019s friends called for him and they went to the park. It is nice to see that his true friends still keep in touch. But said friend came running to our house telling me that our son had hurt himself and it resulted in a trip to minor injuries (whilst hubby also took The Sensory Seeker to his swimming lesson).<\/p>\n

On Tuesday<\/strong> the 10 year old searched for things to protect his hair falling into the fire for when we go to forest school. We were going to go rock climbing but had to change our plans as his leg hurt (and later his swimming lesson). I tried to get The Sensory Seeker to work in his English Essentials book and so did his brother but he really couldn\u2019t focus. To help the boys with their writing I got them to think about what they would do if they won the lottery. The 10 year old cooked lunch (reheating pasties and a sausage roll in the oven) and after school hours the boys went to Explore Learning. In the evening The Sensory Seeker made pizza for dinner with his dad. I had bought a base and he added the sauce, cheese and toppings. Then I went to running club.\"boy<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday <\/strong>I still had SO much to do and so the 10 year old helped by looking at my `to do\u2019 list on the board. He helped discover things about our upcoming holiday – including information we needed to know about driving in parts of Europe. Both boys then enjoyed their puzzle books and playing LEGO. The Sensory Seeker enjoyed Home Ed Sports group whilst the 10 year old did more of his puzzle book and looked through his vocab flash cards as his leg still hurt. They both finished the day with their Explore Learning sessions. I got to see Deadpool 2 with my husband – it was really good.<\/p>\n

Some of the children who are Home Educated have special needs and I was never aware of how much the boys did not know about different conditions until now. One of them has Tourette\u2019s and I have to admit I didn\u2019t know that much about it. I was told about a programme that was on recently called My F***ing Tourette\u2019s Family and how it was an accurate representation (well as far as TV shows go). So that is how Thursday<\/strong> began. It was really good because in it the family went to the same place we are planning to go to on our holiday (and tied in well with the work the 10 year old did yesterday). I still had mountains of stuff to do and the boys read books and played LEGO in the morning.\u00a0In the afternoon we went to Forest school where the boys had fun starting fires and we learnt how to make dandelion jam. The boys bought home some bamboo and the 10 year old decided to make straws from them as an alternative to plastic. Later they went to a Creative writing workshop at Explore Learning.<\/p>\n

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