Theatre of Widdershins

General 

Elliott was very good today and he did well listening to what he was told (mostly). There was a little bit of hyper-ness a few times but no major strops or upsets. We talked about "calming his brain" when he was being a little hyper (and he mentioned "training his brain" as well, which I said was good because he can do that himself).

Activities

After breakfast we played the Dinosaur top trumps card game again and he was beginning to get hundred and thousand concepts. Then we headed into Reading. We went to Reading Museum where they were running workshops to make Halloween decorations. This was good fun and we made a hanging bat decorated with glitter. He did almost all the work although I helped a bit with cutting out the bat template (not that you can tell which bits I cut and which bits he cut). After the activity we went for elevenses in the cafe and he coloured in a witch design which they gave him a chocolate creepy crawly for and stuck on their gallery wall. His colouring was pretty good and I think he was quite proud. Then we drove to TGI Fridays for lunch where he had chicken goujons, smiley face potatoes and beans and eat everything.       

After lunch we went to South Street for the Theatre of Widdershins puppet production of 3 stories - the 3 little piggies, Goldilocks and the 3 bears and the 3 billy goats gruff (bit of a 3 theme). This was really good and was a cross between really good story telling and a puppet show. Elliott really enjoyed it and was giggling all through all the stories. He was one of the older ones there but there was lots to the show for all ages and he really concentrated well throughout the hour. After the show we went home and played with the bat decoration - now named "Freddie". We also read some more of the Star Wars phonics books and he did really well recognising quite a few words without spelling them out (we looked at the list from the summer as well) - if you can write in his school book that he read 3 Star Wars books that would be great as I forgot to pick it up. We had chicken fajitas for tea and he went to bed nicely.     

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