Helena prepared this weeks ago. The first one was done years ago with animals and a whole scene in it. I remember freezing coloured water in balloons for playcentre even more years ago, the balloon ones all got smashed by being thrown within minutes of being presented. The ones at home never got thrown and…
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.
Du-kit by Helena
I made one box and liked it and then I made these smaller ones. I make the box first then sometimes I make the lid next and sometimes the decorations. For some of them the decoration was the lid, like the leaf one. The containers I didn’t need to squish. All I did was draw…
… make and do…
We call a variety of things making and doing, mostly because lots of things tend to be multimedia, ie aren’t just sewing.. Today Helena watched some show about recycling on Heihei and some Mr Maker which led to a whole day of making and doing (not that she really needs the shows). I’m not keen…
Maps..
Helena got lost recently, she went on ahead and when the somewhat slower 3 year old and I arrived she was gone. It was a very stressful hour as she happily went the wrong way, realised, turned around and came back. Unfortunately I’d given her the car key so couldn’t go looking. In some respects…
“It’s boring”
We went to the “look museum” aka The City Art Gallery. I was told the art was boring… I got 5 mins or less per gallery but waited over 20mins while she used their pencils and paper. But she did like the carved gourds. This picture started as scenery and became an abstract. The next…
learning facts – the magic school bus effect
“I like the magic school bus because it teaches me facts. It tells me interesting things. The magic school bus is cool because it tells you true stuff. It, the bus, can turn into different things. I like looking at the different suits Ms Frizzle is wearing. I really like Carlos because he’s funny, they…
Darts
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….
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…
homeschoolery 