Introducing Gil

Lockdown was mainly not a bad experience for us. In fact, the boys generally had a lovely time playing Lego, reading Tintin/Asterix/The Beano/ every single Horrid Henry book until Mum wrote her own book entitled 'No More Horrid Henry Ever', listening to audiobooks, running around the woods, seeing friends and relatives (when allowed), going on scooter rides and of course, making countless Lego ships.

Despite being pretty busy, we did manage to do some work and it was quite a good opportunity to see how Gil and Ferdy can work simultaneously on similar but ability appropriate tasks. Perfect preparation for flexischooling Fridays with Gil, who will now actively participate in flexischool.

Gil also started school this week and thoroughly enjoyed it. Fingers crossed for a child who likes school...

We began the day with some maths; place value practice for Ferdy and number formation practice for Gil.

Then it was time for some BBC Bitesize videos about expanded noun phrases (Gil loves these videos too). Ferdy dictated and turned a few sentences into expanded noun phrases, although I wasn't that impressed when Mummy's tummy became Mummy's big, fat tummy.

Because we had to ease ourselves back into the term gently, we spent the afternoon in the woods in Worcester.

Later on, we even managed a bit more place value practice with dienes - Ferdy really likes using something tangible when doing maths, and Gil likes counting them.

And we got into these brilliant Art for Kids Draw Alongs over the summer - great practice for Ferdy who often finds it really hard to copy what he sees in front of him so we drew Frozone and Mr Incredible.

All in all it was a good start to the term and we are very content with our new flexischooling classmate.