Our garden is in an autumnal mood… it’s damp (even boggy), there is moss, and very few flowers. but we are kind of stuck in it, with the whole lockdown thing… Helena likes to be outside, especially apparently in Autumn…. and is now wearing t-shirts and shorts after her summer of leggings and long sleeved…
Author: annebieleski
I am an ex primary teacher... ex because of regulations saying that you have be fully registered within 5 years of graduating and I only ever worked part-time due to art school, a science job... life. (Now temporarily not an ex teacher as I have re-done my qualifications but still haven't gone back to a classroom).
I was never going to be a conventional teacher, I wanted to be like my Mum who was a most awesome teacher and had the freedom to teach how she wanted.
I am intellectually interested in education.
I have spent 20 something years working in early childhood... part time of course! I had nearly 6 years learning alongside Helena at Playcentre.
My daughter has refused to go to school so I am fortunate enough to spend time watching her do her stuff and trying some experiments on her.
I think learning is easy and happens all the time for every one which is what I want to show on this blog. And it turns out Homeschooling is just fun.
The “Don’t pop your bubble studio exhibition”
We had an exhibition of some of the stuff we’ve been doing in lockdown, mostly for a laugh (me) to eat biscuits (Helena) and to have a deadline to finish stuff. We have been spending days working at our outside art table in the sun but it was naturally becoming less compelling. Mostly we have…
Everyone is homeschooling
Except they aren’t… There is quite a difference to visiting a place than there is living in a place. Same with homeschooling. I think there are people who are enjoying, even relishing visiting homeschooling, hopefully all those people we did playcentre with are revisiting the joy of child led play, and are people with energy…
the feather lesson plan series..
It is hard to say what the starting point of this “lesson” was. I suspect it was re-finding the feathers in the draw we call the bits and bobs box. It did start as a box but had to expand as our collection of little bits of string and wire and corks and much much…
learning from a packet
Ages ago I brought Helena a mechanical toy that you assemble. I brought it in one of those “oh look it’s on special, I’m having things posted it would be silly not to” moves. I thought it might act as a spring board for making her own designs and looking at cams, cranks and that…
We live with my Dad
I am listening to the radio and someone is talking about old people being in homes and how now due to the lockdown their family and friends can’t visit them. A man was saying how his grandma had just died, they couldn’t have a funeral and his grandfather had gone back to the old folks…
numbers are easy
When we were at playcentre a friend’s 1 year old threw some balls over the fence. She made it very clear she wanted me to go and fetch them as she wasn’t allowed to. I go, she’s watching over the fence, I find two balls and bring them back to her and she makes it…
Yesterday’s science
I got Helena up yesterday morning and told her it was a special day. It was science day. Possibly I’m a little restless. Helena was not amused. “What’s got into you Mum?” “I like to do my own thing”. I got our test tubes out and then she was somewhat less reluctant. I wanted to…
Routines
Apparently maintaining routines is good…. It’s 11:30 and I am about to suggest that Helena gets dressed. I think I can tick maintaining routines off. Dad’s reading in the sunporch… I am about to join them. I quite like this routine.
Removing the stress of writing.
Helena hates writing. Writing as in the act of making letters and spelling, not writing as in the ideas/concepts, and she even appears to like editing (or maybe not and she’s just very very good at it). Helena got me to give her a spelling test the other day – self directed, and probably because…
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