Day 1 - and we're off!

Queen Vee has always amazed me, she is a very special little girl, and not just because of her additional needs. Vee doesn't sleep all night every night like most children so going to mainstream school all day just isn't an option for this little lady - it's teatime at lunchtime for her. Home education for part of the day is going to suit her body clock well and we're quite excited about it too.

This blog will allow us to keep a diary of her progress and we can share our/her journey and any tips we pick up along the way.

Today the kids in her class did their first full day so we started 'learning at home with mummy' in earnest. I collected her at midday and we came home to have lunch. Life skills are very important and Vee is delayed in these skills so her first task after lunch was to choose clothes to wear, get out of her uniform and get dressed. She chose her clothes and then needed considerable support to do the rest. 

Our main task this afternoon was ICT and Vee learned more about using a computer mouse, a skill she started to learn at nursery. Vee uses mostly touchscreens so it was good to cement the skill of using a mouse and connecting that it moves at the end of her hand but the result is on a seperate screen. She was able to use it after a few minutes (she was touching the screen regularly though) then was navigating a website (fun children's games sites Cbeebies and Disney Junior) with minimal support (support she was very grumpy about accepting), then clicking, scrolling and dragging.

Vee then went on to navigate away (websites are saved onto Mozilla 'favourites' bar for ease of access as kids can recognise the favicons) from one site onto another and independently found the TV   programme game she wanted to play. She then successfully clicked and dragged items to make a pirate ship and pirate. She also recognised when promted by a game that she had to type in her name, and promptly did so! She found most keys easily.

Great job, well done! 

Next time we will work on accuracy as her movement are still jerky (understandably) and I hope she will finish when asked. I didn't use a timer today and therefore she was resistent about stopping when I said the activity was finished. Sand timer will be at the ready next time! 

She is at home all day tomorrow as her class mates are going to the museum to learn about dinosaurs so my homework tonight is to find some worksheets online and swot up on dinosaur names and facts!