Helena had a moment of loud distress as we sat out side the library and I told her we couldn’t get any books out, I was only dropping books off as we are off on holiday. I like that she feels her life isn’t as good without books especially as it’s make your kid read…
Category: thoughts
It’s all in the timing..
Helena doesn’t like to write… not even ‘Happy Birthday’ and I don’t make her, well except her name in cards so people know who it’s from. Why would I make her?- to guarantee she hated it? Imagining even trying to make her is making me smile. It’s just not possible. There are several issues at…
2019 the report
School is over for the year… Here is Helena 3 months later reading her report… being reflective.
a little reflection..
I think it is important to reflect. It’s an important part of learning, all that metacognition, even perhaps where most of the learning occurs. I am also open with Helena about what the government requires of me/us to let her be homeschooled, ie…as often as and and as good as what she’d get at school….
Delegating
This is the Takaro tribe. They live in the internet/TV land and I am delegating to them Helena learning te reo Māori. I have made attempts but they flop – not directed by her, and we aren’t good at making habits. I just haven’t worked out the best formula for making it work. I want…
Classification according to….
We have a massive collection of plastic animals some of which I brought when I was teaching in a Montessori classroom and we were doing classification so they represent a range of major animal groups. I seem to have lost the birds since then. Helena has always liked these and the collection has grown to…
On a make..
Helena had her making..making..make hat on today. Make no 1: a mask out of the cardboard packet ginger beer comes in. No 2: a clown’s nose out of a cream bottle No sellotape has been used yet! “look mum, I just think about the grass not string..” later she plaited the grass. No 3: a…
I am the bad guy…
It was our last day of having Helena’s friend. I had grand plans of doing all the things they liked best but they didn’t seem interested, not in my list anyway… and there is a storm raging and it’s raining. So what did they do? Making something, it kept changing. I’m not sure it was…
Weird stuff my kid does when I don’t notice.
It turns out she’s secretly actually into gardening… subtly hiding it from me with a “no” when I ask if she wants to help me. This is her garden. I know she really likes pansys. The flowers periodically disappear into potions or get collected for some purpose (colouring cotton buds for instance) then grow back….
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