Silent Sunday

Texas Instruments I had a Little Professor but no Speak and Spell!

You might remember this way back from the mists of time (if you are 30 or under forget it!) the Little Professor. Millions and millions were sold in the past 25 years it's a very  simple but funny educational product. The basic idea behind the Little Professor is opposite to a normal calculator: The child has to type the answer of simple questions like " 3 + 5 = ? ". You can choose between the four basic maths functions and four different skill levels. If the child gives a wrong answer "EEE" occurs, otherwise another of more than 16000 different questions is asked.



This educational toy was designed  by Texas Instruments for childrens aged between 5 and 9 years. And I loved it, as my dad worked for texas Instruemnts in Bedford. I however did not have a speak and Spell. Why I don't know ? I always wanted want one and when my child was younger I bought him one of ebay . And of course  I bought him a Little Professor as well. It just goes to show you that retro can work , I think toy manufactors need to look back in order to go forward. Texas Instruments was way ahead of their time I  loved it.

Cats and Comping

Rollie as a Chef used in quite a few compeitions!

I like comping that is no secret , I love winning things especially for school. I suppose its the thrill of the chase. Yet a little known secret my cat actually comps with my help. And you know what? Rollie is rather good at it! He won a weekend away at a hotel thanks to Laterooms.com as part of their pet factor competition.

He's won pet food, recently a rugby shirt  and even some shopping vouchers for wearing a teacosey on his head. And the runner for this was a chicken so anything goes really!.

 There are many great sources of competitions out there - my friend Di Coke has her own blog all about creative competitions at http://super-lucky.blogspot.com. There are lots of quirky photo and video comps about that your pet can get involved in, they're great fun to enter and you might even win a prize. So why not get comping with your pet, you never know what they might win!.

Rollie matching in with the roof tiles.

Silent Sunday

Speech Language and Autism

My Autism teaching has taken another turned and I am having to delve into the speech and language side of this. I am finding this very very daunting and it presents a whole host of problems, but I am hoping to find my way through it all and come of it more knowledgeable , no one likes change do they I don't!. But I have to put this aside and deal with the card I have been dealt after all it's not about me it's about the Autistic children. So I have started to investigate this myself with the help of who I know. I have been send some great links which I shall be sharing with you all.

http://www.senteacher.org/

http://www.theschoolrun.com/
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resources/


Thanks to a lovely lady on twitter.

The first task I will be dealing with is preposition "in" " under" "behind" etc. I found an excellent game on the Internet for this and all that is required is to print it out and buy some plastic frogs. It is a wonderful cheap resource and it just show you.

Is your child having trouble his prepositions. So I found this game that may help. its from a wonderful website and it's well worth a visit http://freeprintablefun.org/2007/09/free-printable-preposition-game.html