Thursday 16th June.

Short day today as he had an appointment this afternoon....he was hyper tho n struggled to stay on track cos he was wound up about this afternoon. Struggled a lot with maths today but we got thru it, history he enjoyed esp listening to Enola Gay on you-tube when we were learning about the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima lol.

Wednesday 15th June.

Had to swap today n tomorrow as tomorrow afternoon he has an appointment. Did local history/geography and went over yesterdays field trip and what had been learnt etc. Pushed my luck with maths and had him do double digit multiplications and he said he was scared of them but he did them and they were all right. English was enlightening as he had to do an autobiography and answer certain points then do a page in his book....one question was what is your first memory and it is of when he was 2 years old and the day nursery he went to cos the health visitor thought he needed it to bring him on.....he said he remembered the building and described it perfectly and described his one to one helper and then said he remembered hating it and he never wanted to stay but wanted to stay with me but cos he couldn't talk he couldn't tell me :(  He also remembered a smell from there that he associates with the theme music to Thomas the tank engine and he described it as toast, crumpets and pancakes (the type you butter) which was their snack time. Did cooking then and it was the Caribbean....Banana bread......he couldn't make much of it cos the mashed banana turned his stomach as did the squelching when mixing it all up but he loved the smell and the taste after it was cooked.

There is currently 3 slices left hahahahahaha. He went up golf then after and did really well :)

Tuesday 14th June.

Planned a field trip today as it is a tough day...its what would have been the birthday of my late Uncle Johnie so I wanted to make sure me and J kept busy. We went for a field trip to Llancaiach Fawr.....http://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/llancaiachfawr/english/home.html......well worth every penny. Printed off a big pdf document that was full of questions about the exhibition part so we did that first then went to the house....it is based in the 1600's and they dress in 1600's clothes and talk the same act the same etc and take you on a tour. Found out that children under age 12 had to stand to eat to learn humility and also sit on the floor for the same reason, learnt that the beds were so short cos they slept sitting up to keep the angel of death away, learnt the men n women sleep apart, in the servants hall J got to make a 'plague' bag.....a bag of herbs so if there was a bad smell you smell the herbs instead so as to not get the plague lol. All in all a fab day.

Monday 13th June.

Really good day today......as well as the usual English and maths did Geography and as we cooked from Latin America last week today was all about Latin America and also the Inca's and Machu Picchu then art were he used adobe to work on some of his photos from our field trip to Pontypridd last week.

Then he had a golf lesson in the evening and it went really well and he played well and even got a hole in one.....then he and two other lads played hole one n eighteen on the big course and me n the mams had such a laugh we al needed the loo in the end lol.

Sunday 12th June.

Wow what a day.....rain rain and more flippin rain.....other than Sunday school for Jordan not a lot else happened...he wanted to go to the range but it was shut so pretty lazy day lol.

Saturday 11th June.

Golf this morning and J has been buzzing since cos he played really well in the pairs championship and him and his partner won the pair competition today......needless to say he is still on a high lol.

Friday June 10th.

Last night J had a migraine so thought id make today more about relaxed learning so for maths we did a scale floor-plan of the house.....it was maths but relaxed so he didn't get at all stressed over it. Then we did Science and we always go off on a tangent in science as it is J's favorite lesson.....main bit was about sharks but did do other stuff. Then in Project/ I.T time he did a project/report on the computer, during the week we covered a topic 'J led' on 'Are dogs brainy?' so the topic for the report was 'Is Feather(our dog) Brainy?' All in all a nice relaxed day of learning.

Golf lesson tomorrow morning.