School

They seem to be pumping up the pace at school. We have been told that Wuffy needs to have his reading book in his bag every day and that reading books get changed every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  That means we need to make sure he reads it to one of us every night of the week.  He also brought home a two page maths homework on Friday, we did it all but it took about 50 minutes which I think is a lot for a 5 year old. I feel a bit like I am back in school!!

This morning I had to take him to school at 8.30 as he has been selected to have extra support.  The leaflet we got said “extra support” and “acceleration programme” which seemd a little odd to me so I rang the school to ask why he had been selected and what they are planning on doing in these sessions.  The teacher rang me back and seemed astounded that someone had rung to ask about it, I got the impression that it’s not what parents normally do (I am very happy to not be a normal parent ).  In any case she said that Wuffy is a bright boy but needs his confidence boosting and that is the aim af the sessions. When I dropped him this morning he was the first to arrive so it will be interesting to find out what he did.

 

All done

Well the dissertation was handed in almost two weeks ago. I thought I would feel relief when I handed it in but actually I just felt exhausted. Since then we have been camping for a week so I am even more exhausted.

Wuffy went back to school today. We are slightly worried about how he will get on as he is one of the children they have put into a year two class rather than a year one class. We were told that he would be bored in year one and needs to be challenged. I think he was a little worried about being with so many older children but there are about 7 year ones in the class so he isn’t alone.

I will post some holiday pictures when I get a chance. The MSc means I now have a years worth of tidying and cleaning to catch up on in the house!!

 

Big Boy Teeth

I was brushing Wuffy’s teeth this morning and thought “what is that”. When his mouth was free of toothpaste I had a look.   Two big boy teeth, one each side on the bottom at the back. He was so pleased, he ran downstairs, jumped on his Daddy and shouted “I’ve got big boy teeth, I’ve got big boy teeth”

 

Playmobil

Wuffy LOVES playmobil.  Last Christmas he got the hospital and ambulance. He has loads of fire stuff and builders stuff. His real love is anything to do with the emergency services so it was no surprise to walk in the room over Christmas and find this

Apparently there was a huge emergency at the airport, the fire brigade had a fire to put out and then an ambulance came and took the casualties to the hospital.

Then at the weekend he came running and asked me for something blue.  I clearly gave him one of those ‘what?’ looks as he then told me he needed it to put on the floor as a river.  I told him he could use his towel. He thought this was a great idea and ran off to get it.  A short while later I went into the living room to check on him and found that he had turned the floor into a reconstruction of the Hudson River

He doesn’t have a Playmobil ship, so had to make do with a lego one (he has asked for a playmobil one though!)

 

Christmas – a little late

well you know what they say about better late than never

Wuffy left his stocking by the dining room fireplace as he knows Santa will come down that chimmney

I was up before anyone else and managed to get a picture before the mayhem began

Wuffy opened his stocking first, he loved this pudsey bear and shared the rest of his stocking presents with it!!

Then he went into the living room and saw the presents under the tree

he started telling us what this would be

He was right

With Grandma on Christmas Day

Built at last

Is this the only Playmobil plane in the world to have knitted cushions? He asked his Grandma to make tham on Christmas Day and being a wonderful Grandma she did

our living room window, posted because I thought it looked good it was better in the dark but the photo of that is not very good

and finally a couple of food pictures

i’ve just noticed that the only food photos I took at Christmas were of chocolate

 

Buns and writing

We made rudolph buns today, got the idea from Krista at disposableaardvarks, she got them from another blog

Had a little melted chocolate left so I quickly made some holly leaves

Covering them in foil is the most difficult bit. I bought the chocolate moulds from cakes, cookies and crafts, they were very good.  I ordered at 11pm on the Tuesday and they arrived on the Thursday morning.

Yesterday was the last day of school, Wuffy was told he could take in a toy so he took his Tom Thomas helicopter.  When his Daddy picked him up the teacher gave him two sheets of paper that Davey had been writing on.  One of them had a distinguishable “jigsaw”, “doll” and “car” and apparently had the names of the children who brought them in but they were not so easy to find. The other piece was amazing, here it is written and spelt all by himself

We are both amazed and proud

 

Birthday Photos

 

 

This is the cake he had at home on his birthday

His birthday tea was what we call a “bits and bobs” meal Wuffy loves this type of meal

The Hornby train set he got for his birthday (purchased from Woolies )

 

Still Busy

I started out so well and as term went on I seem to have crashed as far as the blog is concerned.  I always find that each term is like this, it starts full of enthusiasm, lots of ideas and energy and as the term goes on just getting to the end of each week is an acheivement.  Only a few more classes left and I get a two week Christmas break Everyone at work right now is saying how tired they feel. It’s our department christmas night out tonight and I have a 9.15 class tomorrow

I’m going to try a little catch up next week.  I was thinking that I might post a few sample lunch pictures, especially as if Wuffy had a lunch he liked he then asked for it the next 5 days so there are many that are the same.  We have had a few days recently of nothing at all being eaten, followed by a couple fo days when his box was emptied.  I am beginning to accept that I have no control all I can do is pack food and then feed him on a night. I think the tiredness is getting to him now though.

School and glasses seems to have done him the world of good.  His drawing has improved immeasurably and he actually wants to draw now which is something he has never wanted to do in his life before.  Also because they are doing phonics at school he is now reading words all over the place.  Wherever we are he wants to try to read signs and such He had built up such a resistance to what you might call “school work” before he started school we now realise this was entirely due to his eyesight, but he loves school and seems to be learning at a pace he is happy with.

I managed to hit both handin dates for my MSc coursework Just one exam in January, two more courseworks and a dissertation and I’ll be done. Although I have really enjoyed it it will be such a relief to finish.  Full time work, part time MSc,  small child and two lots of professional marking a year is really too much!!

I think I might have a catch up photo post as well, I still haven’t posted any birthday pictures.