What I saw (in-between doing my own thing) was a kid in flow…. this was a sustained activity punctuated by excitedly telling me what she was doing. It all had to do with colour, food colouring. The process started with the making of the colour in the palette – using words like complimentary, opposite. There…
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.
Thursday am (30.08.18)
Setting: a house, our house Plot: I was making the babies food – they are all babies who have lost their Mums in the war and some of them are injured (Florence Nightingale is this weeks person to study). for instance Panda is short but the person who shot their mum was walking which means…
THE famous five… and a wee Rebel girls rant
Enid Blyton wrote 21 Famous Five books… I don’t have to look that up, I just ask Helena. We are on book 14, we missed one, and had to get the library to order one because it wasn’t at either of the libraries we belong to. We may not have to read the last one…
experiments in doing what I said I’d do (27.8.18)
What I said I’d do after watching the kids watch Fantasia was set up painting stuff and play stirring classical music and see what happens… Lovely set up and discussions on where to put which colour, accompanied by sound effects “little plip” meaning a small amount of a particular colour. Conversations about what you’d get…
beach again (24.08.18)
such a hard life this ensuring we get regular exercise…. and eat well… This is damper. Flour, water, salt and in this case I made it fancy and rubbed in butter and added yeast. You wrap it around a stick and hold it over a fire and when it’s done you pull it off the…
eating science (24.08.18)
The other day we tried working out the density of rocks but it didn’t really work -the whole problem of two variables not one and so I thought I’d revise our density experiment but re-brand it as dom dom dom the “density cake experiment…” Helena likes to make these things we call microwave potions, my…
watching Fantasia in the age of TV you don’t have to work for…. (22.08.18)
A seven and six year old snuggled on the couch waiting – thinking Mickey Mouse and cartoon. I press play on the VIDEO… “this is sooo boring” “when’s Mickey Mouse going to come?” 5 minutes of that then….. 5 minutes more…. and finally “I think it’s space, maybe they are umbrellas… ” “what do you think…
it’s Physical Education/health… (21.08.18)
Mixed with a little bit of physical geography… slope stability? Hmmm maybe I should make it history and show Helena pictures of music festivals and hippies! We went to the beach with the Tuesday homeschooling group and even better, a beach we’d never been to before. I think of the homeschooling group as all the…
dunno what to do? (16-8-18)
So we didn’t have a Monday meeting this week – it is when we talk about what we want to do for the week and it just means when we are at a loss I can say “well we said we’d do this.” Often we find we are allergic to what it was we said…
TV nation (15-8-18)
or DVD maths? Questions posed by Helena when sorting the DVDs: Who has the most DVDs? easy make piles, look at the piles, and the biggest is the most….. next question due to there being both DVDs and Videos Is that true? piles were counted. Helena has 15 and I have “you have two more…
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