Today September 2019 And this time she baked them her self. Working out temperature, length of time and setting the timer… She’s gone up no levels, no achievement objectives done, no certificate, … but definitely movement in a forward direction.
Category: thoughts
Writing
I read a little friend’s school report and there was one sentence that struck a chord with me which approximately goes “… is not keen on writing in a teacher directed task.” The keen part is not a direct quote as I’m sure the word was more teachery. I thought both ‘why would he?’ and…
War
At the holiday programme the kids like to play war “lots of war… raaaaa” and we let them. It looks like chaos, lots of kids running around with long bamboo sticks and a few with bows and arrows all pointed at people with the accompanying loud roars. Hardly anyone gets hurt, and none badly. We…
What we did today
Helena has this idea for a book she wants to write where the facing pages will be black with white writing and white with black writing. One side is reality and the other is life inside the mind – probably because she is always away with the fairies. This is my version. The stuff in…
Putting together
After all the pulling apart the 40 year old plastic meccano came out.. Here is everyone queuing (an ongoing theme of Helena’s) for a turn to have something made for them.. There was a little bit of following the instructions but lots had to be adapted to the individual needs of each client. She liked…
Pulling apart
Helena has decided pulling things apart is fun. We had a free view box that no longer works. It’s hard to teach kids about Electronics when this is what they look like. I remember making a radio that I had to solder but there weren’t that many pieces and it wasn’t a difficult map but…
Lockdown biking
Like lots of other people we did some biking during Lockdown. I was astounded by all the people, especially families, out biking. We usually bike but this was biking on the road with NO cars just other cyclists. It was wonderful. We did lots of road code stuff about indicating, so far she’s only confident…
Synchronicity
Helena brought this with some of her birthday money. It was something that she’d wanted for ages… A lockable journal… the lockable part was the important part it’s glitteryness just a bonus. I actually remember really wanting and having something like this. It was like reliving a part of myself, though I had no secrets….
a little responsibility
There is some sort of quiet revolution happening… a revolution of responsibility, or perhaps it is initiative. That toothbrush made it’s way to the recharger with absolutely no input from me. Helena identified the problem, worked out the solution and took the initiative in solving it. That has been happening a bit recently. She makes…
When I grow up…
When I was a kid I wanted to make dioramas as my job. I was inspired by all those museums that have now gone all glam and interactivey and thrown out their dioramas. Of course I could have followed some path that made me make movie sets or some such but the idea of going…
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