Halloween party

General 

Elliott was very good today and we worked hard on listening to instructions. 

Activities

After breakfast we played an Early Learning top trumps game with Dinosaur cards and Elliott did really well with numbers and which were the biggest (i.e. winning numbers). We also did some reading with some new Star Wars phonics books I ordered after parent's evening which are same kind of standard as his current school books. As soon as he saw the books were Star Wars he read two of them and did very well with reading, really beginning to recognise certain words without having to spell them out. After that we played Twister before playing the Dinosaur top trumps again with Andrea. Then we all headed out to Carnival Pool for swimming - Elliott swimming with no arm bands and practicing things he's learning at lessons (jumping in, swimming on his back, breast stroke arms, putting his head underwater, a kind of front crawl, etc). He had a shower after swimming and washed his hair, though not quite as much on his own as I was hoping.      

After swimming we had lunch in The Gig House in Wokingham and Elliott had a hot dog and chips with apple juice. Then it was off the  Shinfield for an Halloween party with some of Andrea's friends. There were lots of children there including Joshua who is Elliott's age and they both got on really well. There were games (pass the bucket, pin the tail on the witch) and lots of playing and he was really well behaved. He also had a fish finger, chips and beans tea there with homemade Halloween fairy cake for pudding. Finally it was back home for some iPad, me reading Planes to him and bedtime at 8pm to bridge the gap with the clocks changing.   

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