I was at work today so John took Robert to Tapton House, ex home of George Stephenson (the man who invented The Rocket....more trains) for a couple of hours. The house is on top of a hill and he ran all the way down and loved it! There's a playground at Tapton and he indulged in his favourite activity....the slide. Whilst in the playground at the bottom of the park a little girl came in accompanied by her mum and grandad, she wouldn't speak to Robert and avoided him whenever possible she refused to play on the same things as him and seemed painfully shy. her mother explained to John that "she goes to nursery 2 days a week. She's not normally like this she's just being daft." So much for schools developing social skills. Robert did get to fuss her little 2 month old labrador named Sam.
New words he can read include: T-Bone (from Clifford website) Doncaster (from monday's trip to York) and coat.
He is now aware of where he lives, coming home from tapton they approached the railway station and John said "there's the railway station over there" and Robert replied "yes, Chesterfield station." Wow!
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Um, I'm guessing that you aren't very far from us then - do you ever make it to the Chesterfield home ed group? Or we've a puddlers group in Sheffield, if you don't mind a bit of a drive...
unfortunately i can't make it to the chesterfield group because i work on wednesdays. what day of the week is the sheffield group? any info will be greatly appreciated.
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