Flashbacks

The kitchen is almost finished and we are getting the house back to normal, the tiles need to be done tomorrow and the flooring, but we have managed to nearly tidy up downstairs, we were still very busy today but we managed some audiblox, language type things, finding synonyms, hononyms and antonyms. The children joined in with these games, so we felt it was an English lesson for them as well. We also did some work on hearing a sentence and having to remember the salient words. John and Alex found this very hard, but it was good to practise. I found an old reading programme call, "Keda Cowlings Stride Ahead, a guide to reading comprehension." It was very good for language as well as reading because it began with made up strings of syllables that had to be read. John found some of the syllables a challenge to pronounce, but it really got his tongue going. I think it will help the reading as well. John managed to read some of the Bible last night which was a big encouragement. It was a passage we had read for the last few evenings, so it was familiar, but encouraging nontheless.

Here is a photo of the kitchen.