Last Tuesday, only a week ago, Helena discovered origami. In that she made stuff from a book, following instructions, at first she had help with someone she couldn’t shout at, and who was patient… then she did it by herself. Then they had portraits carefully drawn. The bottom one is “batty” which is her favorite….
Month: Aug 2019
Random train of thought…
Pre dinner Helena is reading a book with altered silly fairy stories. During dinner everything is about “poo” Then she decided she wanted to write and write and write… !!!!! A total jump in subject. She was pretty pretty excited to work out putting an e on the end of wipe. Then that wipe, life…
just because I’m not noticing…
I was having a moment in which I was thinking how bad I’ve been with the home school thing in the last little while due to us moving between houses (before we started house sitting), me being sick (it was a really bad week for me), me having assignments to do and the presence of…
letting her read
Was I right to let Helena choose when to read? It is such an important, useful and even essential skill… I found it hard as I always wanted to read even when I was perhaps not developmentally there but Helena showed no desire -except a brief interest at 3. However despite this I felt that…
Not learning at Playcentre
The Ministry of Education worries about me going to work at Playcentre with my child who is more than 2 years older than the oldest child. The Ministry of Education requires me to teach Helena “as often as” and “as well as” what she would get at school. No where does it state that this…
homeschoolery 