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: literacy
not doing my assignment
ooo don’t get me started on self-directed education, I might go on and on and on. That is not what my assignment is on. It is on something interesting that I have been enjoying reading about, and I enjoyed learning to use Canva. However, that is not what I shall be marked on. I totally…
My kid is sooo funny
She stuck this on the pantry door. It is total nonsense. Dad was totally fooled, he wanted to understand. The diagram was such that it implied some serious thought, something important. It has taken a gap (give the children time to respond, the child being me) to realise how clever this is. How un-observed she…
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…
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…
Current passion…
H’s current passion is photography. She has been interested in an abstract way for a while, but since my cousin gave her a point and shoot camera of her own, her interest has skyrocketed. She has filled up a 16GB SD card. She, Ms shy, has even had a conversation with a photographer: getting advice…
what I have noticed at pretend school
1- most often we have not finished at the time the bell goes and can be mid train of thought, or just at the nitty gritty good bit. It is totally unsatisfying. 2- the before lunch, Nayland college has a very late lunch (1:30 to 2:15) if you ask me, period is a total waste…
we played school and it was fun.
Helena is determined to go to high school and to be able to do this we are practicing- this was her idea. I looked up a local school’s bell times and an approximate kind of subject list. The bell times were nothing like what I remembered from all those eons ago when I was at…
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