So happy… a few months ago Helena would never have done this. She learnt to ride a bike in February and now she is doing a dirt track! Woohoo. She can climb trees like a monkey, go straight up a pole, hang upside down and climb moving objects, bounces flying foxes is physically confident 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.
Helena’s first solo Learning Story (8 – 8 -18)
it says “On Monday I went to the Opera. It was fabulous. There was 5 characters, 1 was one of the audience.” Succinct
more on the qualities of wax (the weekend)
We are making non plastic shopping bags (fundraising for nature, a KCC challenge) and printing on them a design of Helena’s called Happy Fish – it says “thanks for not littering” and she recently added “keep our drains clean”. So I in full on make stuff up as you go mode, experiment before reading, trace over…
a day of many parts (10-08-18)
We have been talking about making our own candles recently and finally we did it. It’s not how the day started…. we got up to find the little bit of water on the kitchen floor (I’d bet Helena spilt some water and didn’t say) was a somewhat larger puddle (sorry Helena). Pull out the stove,…
the balloons that keep giving… 08-08-18
blowing and sucking back the air you blew into the balloons putting water into the balloons how much water can you put in until they explode? how much air can you put in until they explode? rolling water filled balloons down the path tying up the balloons with harakeke – we didn’t want them to…
duplo maths 09-08-18
So we used to play this game which started when we got out some lego out at the library and the 5 kids were more interested in the computer and were peeved off that I didn’t get the star wars lego. So I sat there sorting the colours into piles, lego looks so like lollies,…
Saturday perfection 04.08.18
I guess this counts as schoolish work… A toy library toy to tickle the brain before breakfast (there are two ts and an i missing just in case you were curious). The most interesting thing though was her response to her mistakes – you can make the word on the blank side then turn it…
sometimes it looks like “school” 01.08.18
… except that this is at some random time of the day… Helena’s working on a patch of sun on the floor where she wanted to work… she could work and eat at the same time… didn’t have to ask to go to the loo… helped write her own ‘worksheet’… and I was having a…
stamp Thursday (26 July 2018)
Today turned out to be accidentally all about 10, mainly due to stamps. I say accidentally but there was some method, after all she had chosen 10 as our number of the week. The number of the week was initially her idea at the beginning of last term but jumped on by me and my…
weird project x – Friday July 27th 2018
Tools balloons brought with your own money loom bands daffodil stems metal straw frozen grapes Method Blow up balloons… discover that you can use a daffodil stem as a straw especially when it’s tied on with a loom band… connect two balloons… blow one up and squeeze the air from one balloon to the other……
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