The mornings are still less than easy for M (and me!) and she is finding the tiredness a big struggle at times. However, M is pretty good at getting her homework done in plenty of time, doing most of it on the day it's set. She has started going to concert band with her French horn on a Friday after school and is enjoying that, although a knock-on effect seems to be that she's missed gymnastics later that evening from being too tired a couple of times (although she might well have done anyway I think). I'm really pleased that she did decide to give band a go and is enjoying it, as playing music with others was such an enormous part of my childhood and adolescence and is one of the few things that is harder to offer in a home ed setting, at least before a certain level of proficiency.
One M's main reasons for deciding to try school was sport. She wanted to be able to do more and different sports. Since she started a few weeks after everyone else, she missed some of the PE lessons doing netball before they moved on to something else. Despite having had just three lessons of netball and during those only one match, she was selected to play for the school in an under 12s tournament at another local school. She was slightly concerned that she doesn't know all the rules, but decided to go for it. At the parents' evening her PE teacher had said that she has a good tactical awareness and clearly her korfball ball skills are transferable to netball!
Meanwhile, K seems to be getting on well with maths on Khan Academy and science lessons are going very well too. English however is incredibly slow going, as she seems to take days to write just a couple of lines of the story that is the final assignment of this unit. We have had a talk about this and that K has been trying to hide the fact that she's not making much progress, and have a plan that she'll try doing the English first before moving on to the work she does online and see if that helps.
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