Today I see why school just does not work for him. I should have seen it before but it has just been so much a part of our lives I haven't managed putting two and two together. But today as he stands up to do all his work, completes his maths while balancing on one leg. Then runs around the room flapping and jumping between activites. Today I see why he comes home totally and completely stressed. A school room is no place for balancing, jumping and flapping while completing work.
But he has completed 4 pages of maths, about 6 of english. Completed his project on woodlice. Plus a number of other worksheets he wanted to do. He is really loving number mazes at the moment. And I am pretty sure all his balancing jumping and flapping will tick a few PDHPE fundamental skills boxes. Todays formal learning is done. Natural learning for the rest of the day, and lots of reading if I can make him sit.
So now he is bouncing while he makes a stamp collage and is hanging out to play mathletics this afternoon.
Despite his need to stim today, he is very happy and content and having the freedom to stand, jump and flap when HE needs to and not when it works best for the class seems to be doing wonders. I was hoping that by the end of the week I would see some things I could suggest to the school to make schooling easier on him. But asking that he run, jump, flap and balance around the room as needed is not conducive to the learning of the other students. Homeschool is where he needs to be at least for now.
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