Happy New Year's Eve! The festive season has been pretty overwhelming though mostly in a good way and still left me exhausted. Our kids are back to school this week (though on different days) but I'm completely unprepared regards uniforms etc. However, I've managed to pull myself together for our SEND and Spectrum Sunday linky.
Make sure the man in red stops at your place and keep the kids busy with this fun and easy craft that helps motor skills development too.
Whether it's at home or while we are away, getting the kids outside is a must even though it's not always easy. David, like many kids with autism has virtually no sense of danger, and his older autistic brother is petrified that David might get hurt. Jane is only four still so can get tired if we are out for too long. Exploring can be too unpredictable too.
This is a lovely activity we've updated that develops motor skills and promotes understanding of what's happening in nature around now.
Ask anybody what the benefits of baking with the kids are and they'll tell you that's obvious, you get to eat lots of delicious cakes at the end of it. True, that is one of the great benefits of baking with your children, but that's only the end result. There's so much that they can learn along the way and it'll actually improve their skills and learning in a lot of different ways that you may not have considered. And Christmas is a great time to start and take advantage of more than just yummy outcomes.
Welcome to December. As the song goes "It's cold outside, but warm bed". If only I had the chance of getting any sleep recently. David's been up a lot in the last week or so and I 'm shattered! But, I've managed to pull myself together for our SEND and Spectrum Sunday linky.