Not difficult to blog in 10 minutes here, as we rarely do anything out of the ordinary at the moment! The days go by containing school, work, and various kids’ lessons, and then we all go to bed – usually Steve and I around the same time as the kids!
The highlight of last week for me was having the opportunity to attend the first session of a National Autistic Society course on understanding autism in the early years, which the TAs in my class got a place on due to the parents of one of our class children having a place on the course as well. I’m hoping to attend a few more in the next few weeks although we are sharing them between us, so I won’t get to do the whole course. It was really interesting, from both a professional and a personal point of view.
Our weekend was really busy and mainly taken up with mainly musical activities as usual. We held an Open Day at the children’s orchestra on Saturday morning which went really well; we had an extra 45 children who visited, including 6 new cellists, which Anna was thrilled about! Hopefully some of them will come back next term.
In the afternoon we went to Joe’s Suzuki Group lesson so that took out the afternoon.
Did a few jobs and crashed watching The Other Boleyn Girl in the evening. Enjoyed it, but I haven’t read the book
Sunday morning we decided to skip church otherwise we wouldn’t have all been in the same place at the same time at all over the weekend! Instead we went to Sainsbury’s for brunch and to do the shopping.
Later on Anna and I went out to Crediton for a Youth Orchestra concert which also went well – we sold most of the cakes left over from the day before!
Got home in time for tea, then did a few more jobs and went to bed. See? boring!
Today Anna had a special Science Fair at school; all the Y7s had been asked to prepare a display of scientific interest – they had liberty to choose any scientific subject. She’d chosen ‘Bones’ and (having finally found some information on the internet as well as in some books that we already had
) made interactive labels to go on a skeleton, as well as some other information presented in lapbook style. Unfortunately she couldn’t hang the skeleton properly anywhere and her folders kept falling over, so she was a bit disappointed about that, but apparently she still won a prize for ingenuity.
We then had to explain the word ingenuity to the other two …