Check this out… my darling whipped it up in a couple of nights for a Shakespeare competition (she is so excited as it means she gets 4 magazines a year)… then she had to spend a couple of nights cutting down on words! She can write!! MC’BETH’S FISH AND CHIPS. Terry Mc’Beth sighed…
Modeling
I am doing Masters. As it is about education, I am sharing it with my one student. Firstly, thinking about how we think of ourselves within education. Secondly, thinking about our place as pakeha in a Maori country, how to be tangata tiriti. We listened to the RNZ history podcast together. I bought a beautiful…
Homework
This is the kind of homework I approve of…. Self set showing thought and thinking of their game in the context of the wider world… The child who did this homework has been coming for years. They are charismatic, so very full of amazing ideas, such a leader… They told me they were bullied/teased at…
revisiting
I know that one of my last posts was on revisiting, but I am revisiting revisitng until I get it straight in my head!! I remember ages ago when I worked at the toy library, hearing a parent say to their child, “Don’t get that one you have had it before”. It made me think…
democracy
H just wrote her first submission on a bill that is going before Parliament. The Fast Track bill – which gives 3 men (with an irrelevant set of skills) the power to override decisions of the environmental court… basiclly removes democracy, and means they can mine conservation land among other devistations. She cried when I…
I left Helena at school
Schools are so set up for extroverts. I know that H has to get over a certain part of being shy, but I also know that this takes almost all her effort in most situations. She finds it easier when there is a joint task – if there is a layer of ‘we are all…
the circle of education
I first taught H to knit years ago. She wanted to learn, but she was so little. I guess she wanted to as it is what I do, usually while ‘watching’ TV, gotta keep those hands busy. I have been knitting for years. I am not an expert like lots of my friends or like…
Current passion…
H’s current passion is photography. She has been interested in an abstract way for a while, but since my cousin gave her a point and shoot camera of her own, her interest has skyrocketed. She has filled up a 16GB SD card. She, Ms shy, has even had a conversation with a photographer: getting advice…
what I have noticed at pretend school
1- most often we have not finished at the time the bell goes and can be mid train of thought, or just at the nitty gritty good bit. It is totally unsatisfying. 2- the before lunch, Nayland college has a very late lunch (1:30 to 2:15) if you ask me, period is a total waste…
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