Week One & Two.

Just to be clear, I'm 'flexi schooling' Queen Vee. We came to this decision mostly because she has siblings in the local school and she had the idea that school is what happens when you are 5! We felt it is a good compromise for now. Her additional needs prevent her being there full days - our catchment school is a heaving mainstream with c670 pupils, plus with the politics of ASL I am not taking chances. I still haven't ruled out home education all of the time or more specialist education for Vee but am happy to trial part time formal education for now.

Early on week one her class went on a trip to the museum first thing so Vee got to have a whole day learning at home. She hates the museum, it's a sensory nightmare for her and actually she has no interest in being there. This coupled with her being unable to walk that distance, deal with being in the building and focussing then the walk back, it was just not right for her.

We started the day later than school time after taking her siblings to school and started with some handwriting. Vee has low muscle tone and a poor pencil grip (hypermobility and hypotonia)  so whilst school will be keeping momentum going at the rate of her peers at home I am working on the basics of moving a pencil about a page and following an instruction. We worked on following a dotted straight line and then some wiggly lines.

Vee's class teacher gave us the 'T' sheet to work on at home, which was good for colouring in and naturally she got the sound and action immediately!

We then moved on to doing some work on dinosaurs, given that's what her class were learning about that day. I already had a vocal and matching app (Dinosaurs World) that my kids have been using for years and so we did that first.

 Then I found this app (Planet Dino) which has puzzles, matching and sequencing games. Vee found it "too loud" but did enjoy with the volume off!

The children in class were learning about numbers 1- 10 so we worked with pegs as I was hanging up washing. This game doubled as good therapy work for Vee's wrist strength too as she pegged up some of the items for me. She was a very willing helper and eager pupil this week.

We continued working on all the above tasks and including work sheets brought home from school I feel we had a very productive and busy week. As we finish week 2 of this journey.


 I feel very happy about this decision and about how motivated Vee is with me as well as with her formal class teacher.