Thursday 4 September 2008

He survived!!

:-)

He came out smiling and full of beans. His teacher is really into Doctor Who so they gelled well, and the other kids in his class were ok. They did some work on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which is right up his alley and he said it only took him an hour or so to stop feeling wobbly so that's good. Hopefully he'll have the same to report when he gets out today.

Issy worked well today again, I think a few wires are starting to join up in her brain because she is working well with her workbooks and they are aimed at 6-7 so she must be doing ok. She's still slow with her reading but I have been looking through a website with resources that lovely Immy pointed us towards and shall start implementing some of these strategies with her. She is improving but she has such little confidence in it and tends to sound out every word rather than attempt splitting it into separate syllables etc. She is much happier doing maths and science work! But we shall perservere...

anyhow must go and help Alex do a jigsaw as he is climbing on my head :-S

Wednesday 3 September 2008

he's gone..

*sniff*

Boy wonder left me this morning. Took him to the playground and he was so quiet, he was clearly nervous. Starting Juniors as well, so most of the kids were older than him and although he knows a few of them from footy training etc it's not the same, as they all know each other and he was just so blatantly new. The other mums too - I didn't recognise anyone so chances are I shall once again be Billy No Mates, twiddling my thumbs awkwardly while they chat away. Oh well.... stick with what you know,eh?

Anyway, a lady from the office came out and I asked her which line to join and when the teacher came out they all filed in. Mrs Carlisle is his teacher, and she greeted him with a big smile and asked him if he was Callum and he said he was, and that's all I caught before the door shut. He didn't look back, which I guess is a good sign.

Issy settled to work very well this morning, we did a little of English, Maths and Science and she tried hard and we had fun, which is most important. Then Alex's nursery teachers, Miss Lawson and Mrs Hefford visited to meet Alex properly - he was very quiet and shy at first but warmed up a little. He starts next Tuesday and I hope he'll be ok....... it was nice to have them here anyway as they are both lovely and gave me the gossip on their new headmistress,lol!!

I will update with Cal's opinion of his day later but for now here is my baby.. he was very brave and I was so proud of him. I so hope he has a good day. Fingers crossed everyone!!