Then they pretended to be deaf! Their partner had to act like a hearing dog. When the telephone rang, they had to alert their ‘deaf’ partner to it by pawing at them and running to the telephone. They did the same sort of thing for the ‘smoke alarm’ (a magazine) and a doorbell.
All the children enjoyed these practical sessions and now have a better understanding of what it is like to be blind or deaf! However I must give extra congratulations to Cormac, Ruby & Nathaniel for their interest, they were extra attentive to the subject. Both Cormac & Nathaniel were able to work out where they were in the yard whilst being blindfolded by recalling the feel of the ground under their feet at different points & Ruby found the experience of trying to find your way around without a guide dog was very scary but as soon as she had her ‘guide dog’ became confident about moving around with ‘him’!
Well done everyone!
The children also had a chill-out few minutes and did some colouring in – a fun picture of a man being bitten on his backside by a dog! Again they had a lot of fun with this as you can see from some of the results.
Riding was back to normal with Jenna. All of the members ‘hacked out’ either down the lane or around the riding track as well as riding in the sand school. The most improved riders this week were Tamryn & Sally
Grooming and mucking out was with Jenny and the members managed very proficiently to muck out the stables and groom and ponies very quickly indeed. Jenny has informed me that Cormac has become extremely proficient in untacking the ponies and can do this by himself.
The 2 sessions went very quickly and as both sessions ran the same, again I have merged this report into 1 instead of breaking it up into 2 (why repeat myself)
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