I have been thinking about this recently as I am trying to think of a way to provide educational opportunities that would make money to pay rent to have a place to provide these opportunities and I thought maybe the idea that what you provide was for gifted children would get a certain kind of…
Category: thoughts
then there is this
I mean, one minute she is writing better than me, then next there is this obsession. She buys sticker books and then spends ages cutting the stickers out…. She says, “I like the feel.” There is apparently no word of it. It’s to do with the shapes and colours, cutting patiently around the edges! Making…
What was I thinking when I worried…
I have hardly heard from my child for days. She goes into her room and communes with her (it’s now hers), laptop. “Who’d have thought writing was so addictive!” a quote! I was worried: writing, and I am sure there are other posts on me worring about her saying she wants to be a writer…
Homework
This is the kind of homework I approve of…. Self set showing thought and thinking of their game in the context of the wider world… The child who did this homework has been coming for years. They are charismatic, so very full of amazing ideas, such a leader… They told me they were bullied/teased at…
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…
I left Helena at school
Schools are so set up for extroverts. I know that H has to get over a certain part of being shy, but I also know that this takes almost all her effort in most situations. She finds it easier when there is a joint task – if there is a layer of ‘we are all…
Current passion…
H’s current passion is photography. She has been interested in an abstract way for a while, but since my cousin gave her a point and shoot camera of her own, her interest has skyrocketed. She has filled up a 16GB SD card. She, Ms shy, has even had a conversation with a photographer: getting advice…
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…
Maths and more maths…
I have done very little maths teaching with H. I mostly just seize the moment when moments happen, like when she has money and there are sales to get her to learn more about percentages… even then, she had worked the links between 1/2 and 50% and how to find 50% by dividing a number…
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