French Trip

Harry has been away this week with the school to Rue in France (www.chateaudubroutel.com). He had a great time and seems to have come back with ALL his belongings! I have felt quite lost not doing Dore this week, or any spellings, reading etc.

He's now back, and although tired, he said he had a great time.

Dore Slideshow

At our last assessment there was a DVD of current and past clients of Dore and their stories. Here is our application. See how neat his writing is when he tries!

Mental Tasks

We are battling on. We have a list of mental task ideas, but unfortunately Harry finds most of them too hard. A lot of the suggestions he wouldn't have a clue about - his favourite seems to be numbers, but I have told him to make the most progress, we must vary the tasks a little. Last night he sang his favourite song to me, so he enjoyed that, but when he finished and I suggested Jack & Jill, he said he didn't know the words - can't remember them. It makes me realise why learning has been so hard for him - he hasn't had the tools in place to retain the information - I'm pleased to say, this seems to be improving as we go through the programme.

Exercises with Mental Tasks

Well, this morning we made a start, and it wasn't too bad at all. We laughed about it - tonight, however, was a different story. We tried the times tables - which Harry found very much harder, and we had a bit of "melt-down". Hopefully, tomorrow will be better. :)

Mental Tasks

We had our assessment this morning and - big surprise - we have now moved onto mental tasks. Although some of his scores dipped or remained the same, they were consistent and the spread was tighter than before...oh, and he's grown another cm!

They now have a slideshow at our assessment centre with success stories of those who have gone through the programme, so we are going to add Harry to that ever-growing list.

Concentration

As I have mentioned on this blog previously, Harry is doing Toe-by-Toe to help with his reading etc. Over the weekend, I have started another workbook Stareway to Spelling which is written by the same author - both recommended to me by Lesley, Matthew's mum.

I was very impressed with Harry's ability to sit at the table and do the work - it took a little while, he enjoyed it and didn't complain at all. Such an improvement!

Letter

A while ago, I pinned a list on Harry's bedroom wall to remind him of his morning routine. We re-discovered this note in his wardrobe last week and pinned it back up again. Harry handed me this note mid-morning (he had no help writing it):