Some context: I leave Helena to do what she will with her day. I am attempting to see what she will independently do. I don’t tell her this but after a while every time the alarm goes she says “ask me what I’m doing mummy”… I want to know how long she sustains a period…
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.
Te Wiki o te Reo Mâori
What we did; I brought a book Mâori at home which has made me laugh and laugh. Helena will surely be learning Kia tika te noho (sit properly) and Kâti te whakapîoioi tûru (Stop swinging on your chair)… but perhaps not the one I can’t find right now about buying a dog! using the Mâori…
not growing out of things (19.09.18)
Pirates…. Helena has been into pirates since, well ages… er 3 ish? I have no idea where she heard of them. I asked her why she liked them years ago and she said something like “because they are fierce” not even she knew how she knew that. I made her a pirate outfit (with instruction)…
it’s all about the process but I wish I had cleaners….
the table we eat all our meals at between meals….. the bedroom floor… the desk that can’t be used due to the mess created while using it…. Last week our virtue was cleanliness (partly a er sort of joke…) but the house was somewhat cleaner for that week. It is a hard road to navigate…
four out of five isn’t bad (14.09.18)
it says – Read books go to the library play do the garden Happy Fish printing Today I said we really should finish up stuff however Helena wanted me to read to her so I said “put it on a list” and went and got dressed… then I came out to find this and weirdly…
you can’t escape the wheels of commerce (09.18)
We went tramping, which is a many hours walk up a big hill carrying everything you need… all to stay in a nice one room hut with no electricity, or kitchen and an outside loo with a spectacular view (“you care about views Mummy, I don’t”). I often wonder why people go tramping, especially with…
who is this kid? (06.09.18)
look at her…. it’s dark, nearly dinner time and she is writing poetry. The seed was sown by me finding that pad while cleaning out my “inbox” and a pen of the dip in ink kind and we have ink – I was busy so off she went. Poppies are symbols of war, poppies…
music – too hard box? (on-going)
Music is not my forte. I like listening – to some. I don’t like classical music much – though I’m sure if I knew more I could clarify that. I did learn the recorder, the piano and violin and even got to grade 3 of theory, I only know this as I found an old…
the fine line of art with kids.. (05.09.18)
So the quandary is do you get the kids to do it your way? I saw the best art lesson ever as a beginning teacher in Marie Hickey’s class. She had a chair on a table in the middle of the room and the kids were all at their own desks around it and she…
writing week (27-31.08.18) with no slapping
For some reason this week Helena did some writing… was she not worried about details, that first time perfection? She did have something to say, and has rather enjoyed the re-reading and likes reading it to me. It says – “I thought this in the night and thought Mum would like it so I waited…
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