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…
Category: literacy
not growing out of things (19.09.18)
Pirates…. Helena has been into pirates since, well ages… er 3 ish? I have no idea where she heard of them. I asked her why she liked them years ago and she said something like “because they are fierce” not even she knew how she knew that. I made her a pirate outfit (with instruction)…
four out of five isn’t bad (14.09.18)
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…
writing week (27-31.08.18) with no slapping
For some reason this week Helena did some writing… was she not worried about details, that first time perfection? She did have something to say, and has rather enjoyed the re-reading and likes reading it to me. It says – “I thought this in the night and thought Mum would like it so I waited…
THE famous five… and a wee Rebel girls rant
Enid Blyton wrote 21 Famous Five books… I don’t have to look that up, I just ask Helena. We are on book 14, we missed one, and had to get the library to order one because it wasn’t at either of the libraries we belong to. We may not have to read the last one…
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…
Helena’s first solo Learning Story (8 – 8 -18)
it says “On Monday I went to the Opera. It was fabulous. There was 5 characters, 1 was one of the audience.” Succinct
Saturday perfection 04.08.18
I guess this counts as schoolish work… A toy library toy to tickle the brain before breakfast (there are two ts and an i missing just in case you were curious). The most interesting thing though was her response to her mistakes – you can make the word on the blank side then turn it…
sometimes it looks like “school” 01.08.18
… except that this is at some random time of the day… Helena’s working on a patch of sun on the floor where she wanted to work… she could work and eat at the same time… didn’t have to ask to go to the loo… helped write her own ‘worksheet’… and I was having a…
stamp Thursday (26 July 2018)
Today turned out to be accidentally all about 10, mainly due to stamps. I say accidentally but there was some method, after all she had chosen 10 as our number of the week. The number of the week was initially her idea at the beginning of last term but jumped on by me and my…
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