When Helena chooses a trip they tend to be revisiting something she liked before. Helena use to love Capital E which is mainly for preschoolers so runs more or less school hours. I think it is occasionally a bit twee. This time we had to go in a weekend… So there were even more than…
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Just us trips…
We are in Wellington, where we use to live and it is my place, the place where I feel at home. There are poems up on the waterfront about Wellington and one calls this beautiful city the headquarters of the verb and it so is, I love the way both the landscape/hills and the weather/wind…
going on Trips
Recently we have been on a few organised trips/events? Things where there is some other adult telling you stuff and being the person who knows. Other people have organised these and there were 3 in one week. We have done 1: Stream Care: This is a model of a water catchment. Helena was most proud…
An ode to playcentre that was.
I am watching my 7 year old play. She is playing “play school” (called this as she is the only parent there), there are many students (soft toys). They all have different needs and enjoyments, “this one likes making stick houses, this one makes rivers using pipes and cutting them and putting stones in them…
yet more Science…
“Explain to me what you are doing?” “Well I am balancing like that, goodness that’s not right I had it like that before, then the little side only the ball (golf ball in a baby sock) falls which means the balls much heavier than the other thing (wooden cotton reel) and then it falls down…
To sport or not to sport?
The Steiner schools think sport is for exercise, health, agilty and enjoyment and competitiveness isn’t encouraged except against one’s self. Montessori schools de-emphasise competitiveness and encourage cooperation. Why? There is a certain pleasure in having rules as defined by someone else governing your game, an abdication of responsibility and it’s easy. For me this pleasure…
Topics…
I can’t say ‘doing’ a topic seems to work like I imagined. Mostly I don’t know what sort of topicish stuff Helena thinks about, I suspect that she sort of thinks about lots of things in the back of her mind while doing something else. We occasionally talk about stuff (as in not what her…
Show and tell
Just for fun we have show and tell at our Monday meeting. The meeting is when we talk about what we have on for the week, what we want to do, stuff we have to finish etc but it was a bit ho hum, adult heavy, so then we started show and tell- a reason…
More “set ups”
This time with rose petals collected from the ground yesterday. They were intended for some kind of fairy bed… But lots of dudes got rather lovely beds, all tucked up. “Mum wouldn’t you like a bed like that, that smelt like that”
Hope..
That’s what it felt like this morning… …when Nelson Boys college turned up and did a haka, when the Head Girl at Nelson Girls did a karakia then spoke so articulately, when Nelson Central School turned up with their school banner, Hope Primary School in their sports uniform so you knew it was their school,…
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