Today Helena was being part of a factory… Cutting the ends. We are making Sanitary pads for Days for Girls, making pads for people in period poverty. We’d been to another factory, Pics peanut butter factory, earlier in the morning. We talked about how some people her age work… about women and girls having to…
Month: May 2019
Cr#p my kid makes…
I have been having something of an existential crisis, again. I went to an art school years ago and have a zillion ideas. Recently I went to a gallery and it had an exhibition of the finalists in The Wallace award. I am arrogant enough (confident in my ideas and of my ability to execute…
Citizenship
We have just been to a very frustrating council meeting. Helena put in a submission to the council. It was their annual plan which probably had no interest as such for Helena but she does think the council does things – our rubbish, the bike path being built around the corner, roads, she hears me…
Watching Tv
We are soooo tried, I’ve hardly slept! I’m so tired, we NEED to watch TV (accompanied by some over the top acting ) Mummy? Of course I say “er NO” leading to foot stamping and complaining. How there isn’t anything else to do, really there isn’t. So her friend and I start a game of…
When a holiday programme is school
I really like the holiday programme I’m involved in. It’s how I think school should work… we have but three rules. Respect yourself and others. Respect our environment and equipment Respect play Aka the playcentre ‘rules’ which cover everything from going to the loo, keeping warm, staying inside the cones (boundary), saws, games, not being…
Chemistry 7 year old styley..
Chemistry is the properties of material and involves measuring stuff, adding things together watching (and some waiting) for reactions. Not if you are 7 and given free range to experiment. It’s adding everything and feeling it, the texture, colour, trying to get your mixture the same as your co-worker. It uses language like, ‘I added…
Research
Helena had new questions on the body quiz tip shop computer game thing and owing to her not wanting to make any mistakes she did research..and when that didn’t have all the sholder bones… And then there was all the measuring to fill in the gaps in her ‘secret file, height, cm, kg, and looking…
Lolly maths
I hate lollies, not so much them but the whole performance. The asking, begging, deciding what to have (at our old dairy it was mostly OK as Jitish would tease the kids and get them to work out what they could get, he seemed to get the whole process) then there is the weight on…
Mother’s day 2019
Pre event: Such a big event has to be planned for… so a week in advance this list was written. I’m not allowed to take a photo of the filled in sheet until after. I’m looking forward to the sipriss (even predictive text knew that was surprises). Next she had to enlist others as she…
