Jumping Day

If Ferdy had his way, he would spend every minute of every day listening to audiobooks and reading books (I didn't know it was possible to do them simultaneously but reading The Beano whilst listening to C.S Lewis's The Horse and His Boy actually is a doddle) in his playroom.

So, when Ferdy requested that we have a jumping day for his first flexischooling day this term, I leapt (yes, I know..) at the chance of him doing some physical exercise, and suggested going trampolining.

tl-br: watching the safety video; only Ferdy finds a way to have a nap in a
trampoline park; doing a BFG leap; coming down the slide.

There's no real explanation needed for trampolining other than it's something that we can all do together and we had a a lot of fun pretending to be the BFG and having Ninja fights.

As it was a jumping day, we managed to get into a Jumping Clay session in the afternoon. And because we are all still obsessed with the How to Train Your Dragon books (yes, me too - when it's my turn to choose what we listen to in the car I no longer chose Radio 4 but How to Fight a Dragon's Fury. It is sooooo exciting. And (spoiler alert), both Ferdy and I actually cried when one of the characters died in Book 11), Ferdy made a model of sweet little Toothless.

We did a lot of reading over the summer so it's no problem getting Ferdy to read now, but doing writing and numberwork (we have an agreement that we read a book or a chapter of a book, write something and do some numberwork every Friday) had to be approached more gently. Ferdy decided to write about Billy William the Third in Mr Gum (his audiobook that day), and to count in 10s up to 100 and write them down.

Sometimes writing under no pressure and amongst a lot of mess
seems to be the best way.

Our flexischooling year began with a bounce on our bottoms, creativity with our fingertips and a character study of a dirty butcher (Andy Stanton's words, not mine)... Not a bad start!