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…. went very well. I had a brief word with the teacher just to fill her in on the basics we’d covered in maths and literacy - as I hadn’t even looked at the National Curriculum until very recently to see whether there was anything Erk might’ve missed here. She seemed a little surprised that I’d bothered to do so.

In maths they were counting in various different numbers, so Erk, having just started decimal fractions at home said that this was a bit easy. They also looked at different states of matter - which Erk said he remembered well enough too. He could explain what made solids turn to liquids and then gas but couldn’t remember at what temperature water froze or became steam. Apparently the story being read is The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and he seemed very impressed with that (as I got a brief history of the story so far). Although he couldn’t remember the title, I managed to piece it together by the names of the children, the fact there was a wardrobe and a snow witch/queen.

Then it was a quick back home and chill before he went off to Cubs on a night walk around the village.

R. was a bit ‘off’ this morning, but I think he enjoyed the extra attention. He’s just finishing up on Norse Myths and I’m planning to have a bit of a whizz through basic form drawing before returning to Botany in October. I’ve been busy putting together a new schedule and have uploaded it as a word doc: Schedule 2005. I’ll be adding to it (as ever) as more ideas come to me and doubtless I will stumble across useful bits online. I showed him the plan for a general ok and he seems fairly happy with it so far.

Apart from a bit of knitting, that was about the sum of it today, just hope I can keep the earlier mornings up ;0)