Sorry, its a double post today as just didn't have time yesterday.


We've continued on the maths/literacy worksheets and Callum has been sailing through them. Included a sheet on symmetry today which we have covered before, but was a while ago. He redraw all the shapes easily...am going to have to find him something more challenging. Must trawl the internet later me thinks.


He's been a happy, but tired chappy past few days. Doesn't seem to be able to go off to sleep very easily and then wakes up late. I'm convinced its hormonal now that he's 12, but he's finding it really frustrating as he's normally such an early bird and he feels that he's wasting the day. I daren't wake him up though as, like me, he's a bear with a sore head if woken before his ready. He waited up for me (well stayed up in bed reading) until I got home last night, even though Dad was sound asleep, which didn't help. It was 10am when I finally couldn't wait any longer and woke him up with a cuppa and his worksheets. Am grateful that we don't have a school run to deal with in the morning as I doubt if he'd be in any fit state to learn if I had to get him up for it.


Science yesterday went well, we continued looking at Cells and how they form tissue and the various types that you have. We were supposed to be looking into specialised Cells today, but neither of us were particularly in the mood, so we had (well, he did) an easy and very basic day today.


Terri, my daughter, visited yesterday afternoon and although he'd been asked for days when she was coming, he still dived onto the computer to play his game as soon as she arrived. He did sit and explain to her what he was doing and he didn't like it when we went out to the cinema later that evening (hence no blog yesterday), but I was surprised that he didn't just launch himself on her as soon as she arrived.


This afternoon he had a surprise playdate for an hour when Carol came round to pick up the washing machine drum and to drop off some mini jars for me. Lauren (her daughter) spent some time with him on the Playstation whilst Carol had a cuppa and a chat, so that was cool. I also got a lovely little pile of educational resources to have a looksee at and decide what I want to take before passing on.


Other than that he's basically been a computer boy while I've been doing housework, washing and catching up on the knitting. He's also been making up his own game using the Cluedo board and paperclips......he was happy and I was....interested. Never did get to understand it though.


So that's it, not a great deal of activity, but that's how it goes sometimes. Very busy one day and very quiet and maybe a bit lazy the next.


Cya


PS: If you are wondering why Carol was picking up a washing machine drum, we saw people using them as fire pits whilst away at Off Grid this year and both thought it was a brilliant and simple idea (and why we hadn't already thought of doing it), so dearest partner has managed to pick up a couple from the yard at work and bring them home to be reused. Better than being put on the tip!