Getting our bearings!

Today I got up extra early to give Dotty an extra long walk!
She was so surprised to meet up with her friend ,who is a large, English Boxer called Tilly. They ran through the park together .The two puppy pals rolled through puddles,tried to dig holes all over the park, then, finally, they found small stick, and shared it.There they were, inseperable! It was such a comical scene as they were merrily trotting along together with this old twig in their mouths!
I am so proud of Dotty who is now just turning nine months!She is doing so well with recall even when she is interested in chasing birds or playing with dogs she keenly returns if I call and signal to her! Her ears fly out behind her as she sppeds back to me!
Her little tail looks like a propeller when she is running along!!!!
This evenig our walk was made more thrilling by the presence of a family walking their dog int he park with a torch on permanently .Dotty is obsessed with shiny lights and adores chasing the shadows that shiny lights produce we needed to seriously distract her so that she didn't harass the innocent people trying to have a quiet eveing stroll with their dog!

Well back to our daily learning adventures!
DS was very perplexed by a maths lesson involving bearings.
He actually had to use a protractor ,ruler, and set square on paper with absolute acuracy
This is very difficult for a child who struggles with cordination and sensory integration, but with lots of patience and encouragement he completed his assignment with 96% as a mark.It only took him about an hour and a half with lots of moral support and calming shoulder rubs to help him overcome his abject fear of having to coordinate so many things at once.

DD also didn't understand the point of leanring how to multiply at all so I simply spent time showing her how labourious it is to add up 12 twos or 11 4s and how long it takes to write out the sums! Eureka she has decided that its really helpful to use multiplication!

We spent time reading together about ancient Egyptians today and both children spent time creating stencil designs of some Egyptian symbols!

We read together and we shared a delicious lunch full of fresh veggies and cheesy wholemeal toast. This feast was in honour of our play date with another home educating family when DD spent time making clay pots,drawing and painting.
Later she spent time building a fairy tale castle out of lego!
Then after tea she continued some work on her Egyptian Symbols and asked to do some more work on multiplaication!
This afternoon after taking part in all of his learning adventures at home,
DS went to play with another friend who is home educated, and has Aspergers syndrome.
He was so excited all day waiting to go.

This week has been hectic so far with Home ed group at our house on Monday,Tuesday with a visit from our malysian friends who also home educate,Wednesday joining forces with another home edding family to do history projects,
Today playdates afte a busy day of leanring activities I am ready to rebbot the wasshing machine wipe down every surface above the florr sweep hoover and clean all of the washable floors and hoover every carpet before bed!

Right housework frenzy, pack swimming things into a bag then collapse into a lovely bath followed by bed , beeed , beeed , it feels like years since I last spent ime in my lovely cozy bed!