I have done very little maths teaching with H. I mostly just seize the moment when moments happen, like when she has money and there are sales to get her to learn more about percentages… even then, she had worked the links between 1/2 and 50% and how to find 50% by dividing a number…
Category: assessment
check it out
H made this all on her own, in her room by herself… no help, just following instructions. I remember when she had difficulty with the fine motor skills. I can remember when reading was hard. When she needed me to translate.. It’s so cool.
Benefits of reflection
Today we had an appointment at Start Care, a medical research trial Helena is part of. H brought along her science fair project that she was inspired by being in this study. The nurses and the doctor were suitably impressed. They took photos. And Helena, she read it all “I’d forgotten how good it was.”…
I hate this time of year
I hate the beginning of every term. This term beginning seems especially bad. I do feel somewhat excited when I think of all the possibilities, I make the usual hopeful promises but I constantly don’t live up to them. For instance I haven’t been writing this blog much recently despite several termly resolutions as I…
Is what you are teaching preparing children for the climate emergency?
I have been cleaning at a high school, I get paid to do exercise and listen uninterrupted to pod casts. I do it in part because I know what it feels like to walk into a clean classroom room and feel that “today is a new day” feeling however terrible the day before was, and…
the report
as in last years, a bit late due to some apathy on my part that has lasted for the last term of last year and the first term of this year!! and a graph we did just because
testing
There is always something in the press about testing and how the kids are failing. Testing is a thing I associate with science. The importance in science is a fair test and this requires This makes sense right. If, for instance, you grew a plant in two different places but were actually testing the the…
the week that was
About an hour ago I was feeling totally successful. I felt we had accomplished a lot during the week. Our meeting on Monday was actually kinda fun – I went through the areas of the NZ curriculum (that I said I’d use in my homeschool application) and we thought about whether we had done something…
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