Defender

General 

Elliott was good for all of today. The only moment where he got upset was when he suffered quite a nasty scrape in football but that was understandable. It did take him a while to calm down and luckily Natalie had a plaster on hand as this seemed to make a huge difference and move him from being caught up with being upset to being able to calm down.

Activities

In the morning we went to football. it was quite a long session today with optional penalties after the session finished which Elliott wanted to join in with - so overall it was just under 2 hours. Generally he listened well and in the game he played in defence and was very disciplined in staying back - he put in lots of good tackles and passes, and even scored an impressive goal on one of his rare forays forward. After we got home we had pasta with cut up sausages in it (as well as sauce) for lunch and he ate very well again.       

After lunch we had a lazy afternoon playing with Star Wars toys and his new Transformer and watching The Smurfs movie. We also did part of his homework, which was cutting out images of balloons with the names of the month on them and sticking them on his homework paper in the right order. He was good at reading their names and pretty much knew the right order already but we practiced it. The next part is to write notable birthdays under the month images for different people's birthdays so I'll do our side tomorrow and hopefully you can do yours on Wednesday (or if you let me know what they are I can do them with him tomorrow). After homework we had tea and a smooth bed time with more excellent reading.