The rest of today

Me and LMS went to see Little Prince's Merit Assembly, where the children are presented with certificates for good achievements in the past week. We managed to get there in time to hand over Little Prince's 5m swimming certificate, so that he was presented with that during the assembly - he was very proud (and so were we) :-) Afterwards I talked to his teacher to see how Little Prince had coped with the class spelling test, he knew the simples three word spellings, but would not be able to write them out like the rest of the class. I'm not sure I understood what the problem was, but apparently Little Prince couldn't do the spellings at all and she has just given him initial sounds to learn for next week. I'm very puzzled about this as Little Prince had no problem whatsoever verbally spelling all his words for me, and he knows all his letter sounds and can recognise all his letters?? I'll have to talk to her properly about it next week! She did say however, that his reading is great and so is his number work, and that in science he is already working at a level 2. Its such a shame that he has so many problems with his writing as he is such a bright little boy :-(

After school it was a bit of a rush as Little Prince had his swimming lesson, and I asked Drama Teen to take him upstairs and get his swimming bag ready and get Little Prince changed. Little Prince didn't like this one bit, he wanted to laze on the sofa and have a snack, and refused to co-operate with Drama Teen and needed Mummy intervention! He then went downstairs and lay on the sofa sobbing that he didn't want to go swimming!! I insisted that he was going, and when we got there he was quite happy, despite whinging the whole way to the pool! He was so energetic during the lesson that he and the teacher got through loads of stuff, and she said they'd done 3-4 lessons worth of swimming in one lesson!! And when it was time to come home, he hid in the boys toilets refusing to come out (and knowing I couldn't go in and get him!!) because he loved swimming and didn't want to go home!!! KIDS!!!!