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…
Category: ART
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…
Thursday pm (30.08.18)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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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