EASING IN GENTLY

Hiya, been a while I know, but I have been posting up some very brief status' on Facebook page under same name:

https://www.facebook.com/CallumsWorld?ref=hl

I've started a page as sometimes it's difficult to write a complete blog.  That could be because we haven't done much or because of time.  Anyway, feel free to check it out.

So back to blog proper.  We have been very slow in getting back to 'normal'.  Callum is definitely a full blown teen staying up and watching various comedy programmes (Family Guy, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, Russell Howard's Good News to name a few) plus, of course, reruns of Top Gear.  So he invariably gets up late as well.  So we have gone from a 8.30am morning to a 10.30am start!  Hmmmm, not good.  In fact we discussed today that it wasn't really good enough, so we have agreed that instead of starting work at 10am, we'll start at 11am and I'll wake him at 10am if he isn't up!  Hopefully after a few weeks we'll be back in a routine.

I have no problems with him having a lay in as it is a natural and normal teenage thing.  Some people may say it's because they are lazy, but it isn't.  It's biological.  And let's face it, given the choice, most teenagers would do it and I can't think that they would be 'blanket' lazy!  Interesting article on link below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7932950.stm

I'm digressing again, sorry.  Last week we literally only did organised things, eg, trampolining and supposedly ice skating.  Trampolining was on two days last week as he is now going to return to the weekly group meeting; a) because James is back and b) he likes the kids that go, so it's a bit of social time with children he knows and likes the company of.  So alternate Tuesdays is private lesson with Kim and every Thursday will be group lesson with James.  Both lessons went well by the way.

We were going to go ice skating on Friday, but the ice machine had broken so it wasn't safe, so we had a day off instead.

Now to this week and today.  After discussing a timetable (we are going back to hands on and project work as the curriculum/workbook stuff was a) boring and b) boring!!) and the above mentioned start time, we grabbed a box of kits, craft items and puzzles and Callum picked out 2 new items based on magnets.  Had a fab play with the sets and adding our own magnets and found a Usborne book on experiments using magnets.  We have decided that for this week and next we are going to build a small project on magnets and magnetism.

Just a little selection of 'playtime' photos.

After that we had a nose on the computer for pictures of Earth's magnetic field.

Then a couple of hours 'playing' with Rush Hour; a brilliant puzzle game where you have to move cars/lorries around to release the taxi or red car (we have the bolt on pack as well).

It's great fun, can be really hard and makes you think.  Very logical game.  We love it.

That's about it.  He's now on the computer playing on Roblox.

Cya