Slightly Older Musings
Ramblings
The Sensory Gym
sarahThis term Eli has been going to weekly therapy sessions at a place called The Sensory Gym. Eli has Asperger’s and Sensory Integration Disorder a string of big fancy terms … Continue reading
Sydney Children’s festival 2011
sarahWe went to the Sydney Children’s festival again this year, actually we were very game and went twice. Continue reading
Spelling for Whovians
glennI was totally failing at keeping my ASD seven year old in the room long enough to even hear the words we were trying to learn let alone attempt to spell them. I realised that one of the word families we were working on was the `ood` family. Yay I know that family, those weird squishy, tentacle faced, hive brained singing dudes, I know them and better than that Eli does too. Continue reading
Book Week 2011
sarahOn Wednesday 17 books relinquished their most cherished characters handing them over to the care of excitable youngsters who we subsequently, as any sensible person would, invited around to play. … Continue reading
Classroom Genesis
sarahWe are building a classroom at the bottom of our garden. Continue reading
Winterfest Medieval Festival 2011
sarah"Jocelyn: Better a silly girl with a flower than a silly boy with a horse and a stick. Wat: It’s called a lance. Hello? " A Knights Tale. One of … Continue reading
Would You Like To Pay It Forward?
sarahWe entered a game over at What we do all Day and were very lucky to be chosen. This pay it forward game is a little different to most blog … Continue reading
Junior Jivers
sarahAs the term is coming to an end I thought I’d show some of the fun things we have managed to squeeze into into it. I mentioned that we have … Continue reading
A little bird told me
sarahwell actually he hardly spoke the whole time he was here, rude thing. If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush how much is one on … Continue reading
Fighting the chill of winter with ice.
sarahOnce a fortnight we join with a large pack of home-schooling kids and take to the ice. Well the kids do I stand around freezing to death occasionally calling out … Continue reading