Joey and school - had a chat with his teacher Ms H yesterday.  After some great days, Joey started off in a bad mood yesterday and never really recovered.  Not awful, but unable (or unwilling) to focus properly and therefore to make any progress.  Hard work for all around.  I was worried about this.  He had been great in the mornings until yesterday; bright, happy, chatty, responsive, funny, polite etc.  Yesterday started OK but then, out of nowhere, came a sullenness and then a 'huh, this is going to be the worst day of my life' approach.  Pretty much silence in the car and, of course, we were late to get going and then hit traffic (don't want to exaggerate here; not much but there is one crossroads that can back up and delay you an extra 5 minutes!) which meant that we arrived at the school in time for work to start.  We normally get him there 10n minutes early so that he can have some time drawing, chatting and preparing.  Being plunged straight into work never really works out for Joey.

Ah well, another day, another challenge.