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: science
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…
revisiting
I know that one of my last posts was on revisiting, but I am revisiting revisitng until I get it straight in my head!! I remember ages ago when I worked at the toy library, hearing a parent say to their child, “Don’t get that one you have had it before”. It made me think…
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…
dividends…
We did school again and there were unexpected results… Check it out. The first class was us doing DeBono’s hats over an exhibition that had what we are now calling “dead things” in it. Wondering is this acceptable? We went and saw the exhibition with some friends for the next lesson. H wandered round and…
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…
choosing a teacher
We belong to a community gardening group. It was Helena’s idea to join years ago and it is now so integral to our life. We go every Thursday morning. Most of the people are retired, bar us and the ex rocket scientist who is in his early 30s. It is community. Mostly H just does…
yay finished
I am quoting someone else when I say “I hate science fair” but I sort of do… oh dear I am already moving into the glow of the baby being delivered and forgetting the pain. It was so painful. Not the initial part when my darling enthusiastically got the idea and jumped totally into it….
if
If I had written this last week this would be a different story.. a happy story. A story about how much work H did during the week on her science fair project, how she was self motivated and interested (her library books were not just on her science fair topic but also about learning and…
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