report 2024 by the artist This was the murder mystery party that Helena wrote to be her party fun. People were given sheets on their character, family tree, some history… then when they arrived they went to their “rooms” and there was a suitcase each with clues. It went so well. Computer ran out of…
Category: Health and Physical Education
It’s happening
There is something in the wind, and I think they are called hormones. H is definitely a young woman now. Apart from the physical, where she is a small number of cms shorter than me. They way she talks is changing. She has become authoritative! Opinionated! It’s fascinating. Thank goodness she still says she loves…
It is getting harder to write these posts
Mainly as my child is getting older. Her learning isn’t as photogenic.. not as subtle, perhaps. Today, we went to the NMIT (Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology). I saw squillions of things I wanted to “do”.. to play with. Big machines you could cut wood or metal with. I saw a room full of silk…
Scary blank page
Today, I woke up after being sick for a while, and my brain was a buzz. When I was last sick, I wrote to a friend of my mother’s, and before I posted the letter she died. My mother and her were really good friends, one who believed in God and one who didn’t. They…
working together
I have been thinking about community. There are homeschool communities all over the local area. There is a bulletin board that advertises events that are coming up, but they are just the general things… To join one of the groups, you have to know someone. Occasionally, someone starts a new one with an enthusiastic florish…
what happens at when I can’t see
H has been sick and spent a few days watching TV. This just happened to coincide with an interview on Radio New Zealand about how we don’t totally relax. I went with the whole mind-numbing TV thing until I was too restless and started some random projects, so my eyes were off the ball. H…
Modeling
I am doing Masters. As it is about education, I am sharing it with my one student. Firstly, thinking about how we think of ourselves within education. Secondly, thinking about our place as pakeha in a Maori country, how to be tangata tiriti. We listened to the RNZ history podcast together. I bought a beautiful…
Homework
This is the kind of homework I approve of…. Self set showing thought and thinking of their game in the context of the wider world… The child who did this homework has been coming for years. They are charismatic, so very full of amazing ideas, such a leader… They told me they were bullied/teased at…
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