It’s not random as she does what she sees the people around her doing… and she reveals what it is she has been listening too, and thinking about… what’s Important. The things she has chosen not to learn include the vacuuming, Sudoku, and the dishes… She has however expressed wanting to make dinner even after…
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.
I only teach because of my parents…
I like teaching, I am a natural – if there is such a thing. I should rephrase that, I like hanging out with kids who are changing and developing in front of my eyes. Both my parents were teachers. My mother was amazing. I use to go to her classroom when the high school…
Musing on last school “holidays”…
It’s not as such a holiday for us in that Helena and I have to go and I get paid. So for 8 weeks of the year I visit full time work and Helena goes into care, unusually and importantly for her, they are the same place. I have very little to do with Helena…
the term 4 horrors…
Each new year seems to start with promise, it’s summer and the world is one’s oyster so you think up glorious plans that this year you will achieve. Term one has a cover page perhaps with a list of formidable goals that one cheerfully thinks are so totally do able in that excitable new years…
The perfect egg
I was listening to Catherine Ryan (Radio NZ) talking to a man about how to tell which kids will succeed, he was talking about testing, but it’s all about what they do when they fail, how they react to failure, what they do with the questions they get wrong. I was also discussing with a…
The school of menopause
My mother went through menopause when I was going through puberty. The only reason I know this was that she gave me some kind of sanitary product (I don’t remember if it was pads or tampons) saying “you can have these I don’t need them anymore” and that may have been our only conversation about…
I don’t want to leave the house…
Then we got to go geocaching…. (my turn) and it’s supposed to rain. And it’s time for me to make dinner.
A day in the van..
Mixed age is awesome… https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/200809/why-we-should-stop-segregating-children-age-part-i And whose idea was this particular play.. the 2 year old’s! After we’d spent a while sitting in the van, just the two of us, driving without keys, and changing seats the others came to see what we were doing and hopped in the back to play “house.” I heard…
Some one else’s lesson plan…
There is an exhibition at our local gallery which is so my kind of thing, something I totally understand doing, and that in an alternate universe I could imagine making…. I could write 1000s of words as to why it’s awesome. But did it speak to Helena? There are attributes we share that we probably…
Home again..
After 14 weeks in the “coolest little capital” in the world we get home to Nelson (I wonder how many lifts there are in Nelson?)…. Day 1: I meant to unpack but Helena’s friend (who I look after) is here… Not that they needed me to adjudicate any disputes today and seemed to have developed…
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