So I let my child follow her obsessions, learn what she wants… who am I to say what is Important to learn, that her passions are not valuable, however weird they are. This is todays hours of work after an epiphany, “I can draw vases of flowers,” that she had at 10:30pm when she wasn’t…
Category: ART
Life is good
So we volunteered for DoC for a week. We had to collect campground fees for two camp sites in the late afternoon and evenings but most of the days were ours so what did we do? Hiking and biking… well we had to drop the truck off in the morning and walk back to our…
Revisiting old things
One of the joys of homeschooling is that everything is there to be revisited, the topic isn’t “finished” we aren’t doing just space this term we’re still doing whatever, the art stuff isn’t in the store room, and time is flexible. Today Helena was making thank you cards, a task she willingly does and feels…
in the pursuit of science 2…
Equipment: Books Internet Method: We are doing the KCC challenges and one is find a new bug. So we’ve been keeping our eyes open for interesting bugs and we found this one.. Next step: what is it? We look up in Explanatorium of Nature (awesome book) which we have out of the library and identity its parts….
a sick day (01.11.28)
Project one: armor Dunno why Project two: printing Ok, so I started this one as we had to finish another project which she lost interest in quickly (been going on too long) but then there was ink to use up, choice. Helena scratched the ink off with sticks, fingers, paintbrush and a paper towel. She…
the holiday programme was OK, just in case you were worried…
One of the things people worry about homeschooling is whether the kids will be socialised… double whammy for me having – oh no an ONLY child. Guess what.. they worry about kids socialisation skills at school too. I remember there were a couple of kids at school (I’m talking primary school here) who other teachers…
no.. no.. don’t take a photo (30.10.18)
… it wasn’t working out and apparently going near it with the phone may have just ruined it… though there was a moment where I was allowed to offer some help to stop it falling over….. This is her first go with plasticine! Go no 1… No 2 – the revised model The final…
the card industry… (26.10.18)
Someone else’s ideas We got some paint colour samples on those little cards and I made the comment that Helena “better DO something with them”… a friend of mine said she used them to make cards. Helena leapt on this idea. These are all for sale… I can get them for a special discount (the…
Thanks Mr Pound (21.10.18)
We visited the Wellington City Art Gallery and saw Patrick Pound’s On Reflection. Helena’s first response was “this is boring” I think brought on by thinking about the cafe later on and knowing about the drawing station that she has always liked visiting…. after a few drawings approach number two, this time maybe she was…
a normal day (20.09.18)
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…
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