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: thoughts
curriculum
what even is it? this master that rules us all…. I think of these lovely well-meaning, probably nice people, all sitting around genuinely believing they are doing good for children writing away, contemplating every word. I do think it smacks of what a lawyer (friend’s father) once said about the law – that a belief…
What are you doing?
well I am writing a 3000 word report… what are you doing my darling daughter? there’s this, “I am getting into lego technics” “this goes all the way to the roof…” and some thing about how “it’s physics mum…” “I was just playing around with my knot book” ooo and I can see my darling…
Homeschool kids play school
they even have a timetable and they stuck to the timetable.. (they must be French as there is no school on a Wednesday) Perriod one: Technology. The top photo is the big kids class where they got nets of cars to cut out and assemble. The bottom is the junior class where they made sculptures…
What! We don’t have to do anything?
rather “Please don’t”… Children do not like being incompetent any more than they like being ignorant. They want to learn how to do, and do well, the things they see being done by bigger people around them. This is why they soon find school such a disappointment; they so seldom get a chance to learn…
so many words
I am doing my Masters and my current course is about play based learning, the value of play, in early childhood. I took the course thinking it was about play based learning fullstop, I just didn’t notice the ECE caveat because of course ECE is play based (aparently not!!) I thought. There are so many…
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…
the tyranny of the right answer
I was recently in a classroom where the kids were doing times tables practice. I don’t know my times tables, well I have a wee gap, but I can work them out or use a calculator. The class practiced by first playing bingo, then had individual quizzes on a specific times table. When it was…
Our days are numbered
Helena has said repeatedly now that she will go to high school. Mostly, she is consistent with this. This means we only have until the end of this year left. I am of two minds. I know that high school is primarily a waste of time if your interests are academic .. well, depending on…
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