Poppy day

General 

Elliott was good after school today. Mrs Parfitt also said he'd been good at school and there had been no melt downs or names on board. She did say he didn't focus on the afternoon sentence writing task very well, but she seemed quite happy and he'd had a house point for his reading over the weekend. In the morning I got him using his Lypsyl as well and he promised to use it during the day at school. He did say that when he used it Cody teased him that it was make up, so we talked about ignoring what Cody said and not worrying about it. On the way home he told me he had used his Lypsyl but that Cody had said again it was make up so he'd said no it wasn't and then Cody had got cross that Elliott had said he was wrong and said he'd kick Elliott. It was quite hard to really get to the bottom of and suspect they were as bad as each other, but I praised him for using his Lypsyl and we talked again about ignoring Cody (and anyone else) when they say mean things and just thinking "nevermind" unless they do something very naughty like kicking and then to tell a teacher.  

Activities

We stopped off at Sainsburys on the way home to pick up a few bits and pieces and he was very good about not getting a toy. He talked a lot about it being poppy day (we bought another poppy yesterday) and he told me they had a school meeting where they kept a silence and he thought about his Great Grandad who got shot in the eye by a tank in the second war. After we got home we did some playing and then a bit of his homework for this week which has now arrived. It's describing things he's seen in a park (plus the common words) so we talked about Cantley Park and he wrote down a couple of observations ("I saw a goal" and "I saw a park"). Plenty more to go though. We had crackers and breadsticks for tea and bath and bed time was very smooth with some good reading after his bath. He also had some hot milk before bed while I read him "Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs".