Ms R thought it great fun to try and read words that I wrote on a piece of paper so after a while I printed out a list of the forty-five key words that she would have learnt in reception had she been. She was thrilled with it and read all of them bar five. The ones she couldn’t read were oddly spelt words like ‘our’. She was really pleased, she talked excitedly about how being home educated was really great because she still learnt things but she could stay with her family and play with her friends. It was really sweet to see her so enthusiastic. It wasn’t a deliberate test but she was happy to see a measure of her success as well. She wanted more words so I printed out the year one words of which there are lots more crammed into the same space. They got progressively harder and we got bored less than half way through them so they were abandoned but interestingly we came across the word ‘too’. Ms R read it correctly but then told me it was wrong so I explained about the three different spellings and their meanings and she recognised ‘two’ further on.
Master Rs eye appointment was disappointing as the person he was supposed to see wasn’t there meaning he only had a partial test and no glasses yet. We did gain something out of it though, a parking ticket.
There’s probably loads more I should be blogging but my minds blank at the moment.