I hate them… Well not all of them, and it’s more the deciding which are the ones to follow through with. We are doing the KCC 30 challenges. KCC is the Kids Conservation Club and the challenges are due to it being the 30th anniversary of Forest and Bird. The challenge in question is the…
Category: thoughts
Noticing stuff…
Helena had an asthma episode (she has been hospitalised several times) last weekend and had to have redipred but no hospital. A few days later this…. This is written on a clipboard from her medical kit which has also been dragged out from the depths of the dress up box.. it has the patient’s name,…
School on sunday..
Today is the 100th anniversary of the end of world war 1. I had no intention of commemorating it. I spend a lot of my time helping children work out ways of solving problems without violence, and they can and they don’t have fully developed brains. But there was a lot of conversation about it…
to computer or not to computer
Pros: The kids are talking to each other about how to do the ‘game’ Turn taking and much negotiation Fine motor skills Laughter I don’t have to ‘do’ anything No cleaning up Cons: Now it’s all they want to do, I’m having to exercise control over myself as they continue to ask to play again……
play, real life or just work?
Aren’t they all the same? Context: Last week she was waiting for a friend to arrive, due at 2pm and it’s 9am… long time right. She’s at a loss so I chuck “busy work” at her, in this case a maths book with questions and pictures that she can write in. We sit at the…
secret learning to read (30.10.18)
I have done no ‘active teaching’ in Helena’s learning to read. I was trying the theory that you can learn to read yourself as I was never convinced that the rituals at school teaching kids to read were what was doing it. It’s all the child. The ingredients for reading are: a child who wants…
a sick day (01.11.28)
Project one: armor Dunno why Project two: printing Ok, so I started this one as we had to finish another project which she lost interest in quickly (been going on too long) but then there was ink to use up, choice. Helena scratched the ink off with sticks, fingers, paintbrush and a paper towel. She…
the holiday programme was OK, just in case you were worried…
One of the things people worry about homeschooling is whether the kids will be socialised… double whammy for me having – oh no an ONLY child. Guess what.. they worry about kids socialisation skills at school too. I remember there were a couple of kids at school (I’m talking primary school here) who other teachers…
no.. no.. don’t take a photo (30.10.18)
… it wasn’t working out and apparently going near it with the phone may have just ruined it… though there was a moment where I was allowed to offer some help to stop it falling over….. This is her first go with plasticine! Go no 1… No 2 – the revised model The final…
money money money… sea treasure! (weekend school)
Helena and her friend collected 185 sand dollars… independently while spending hours out on the sea on boogie boards while their adults watched from a considerable distance and let them do science. We counted them We watched them We talked about the small area they got them from, so how many are there… millions? We…
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