look at her…. it’s dark, nearly dinner time and she is writing poetry. The seed was sown by me finding that pad while cleaning out my “inbox” and a pen of the dip in ink kind and we have ink – I was busy so off she went. Poppies are symbols of war, poppies…
Category: thoughts
music – too hard box? (on-going)
Music is not my forte. I like listening – to some. I don’t like classical music much – though I’m sure if I knew more I could clarify that. I did learn the recorder, the piano and violin and even got to grade 3 of theory, I only know this as I found an old…
the fine line of art with kids.. (05.09.18)
So the quandary is do you get the kids to do it your way? I saw the best art lesson ever as a beginning teacher in Marie Hickey’s class. She had a chair on a table in the middle of the room and the kids were all at their own desks around it and she…
writing week (27-31.08.18) with no slapping
For some reason this week Helena did some writing… was she not worried about details, that first time perfection? She did have something to say, and has rather enjoyed the re-reading and likes reading it to me. It says – “I thought this in the night and thought Mum would like it so I waited…
Thursday pm (30.08.18)
What I saw (in-between doing my own thing) was a kid in flow…. this was a sustained activity punctuated by excitedly telling me what she was doing. It all had to do with colour, food colouring. The process started with the making of the colour in the palette – using words like complimentary, opposite. There…
Thursday am (30.08.18)
Setting: a house, our house Plot: I was making the babies food – they are all babies who have lost their Mums in the war and some of them are injured (Florence Nightingale is this weeks person to study). for instance Panda is short but the person who shot their mum was walking which means…
THE famous five… and a wee Rebel girls rant
Enid Blyton wrote 21 Famous Five books… I don’t have to look that up, I just ask Helena. We are on book 14, we missed one, and had to get the library to order one because it wasn’t at either of the libraries we belong to. We may not have to read the last one…
experiments in doing what I said I’d do (27.8.18)
What I said I’d do after watching the kids watch Fantasia was set up painting stuff and play stirring classical music and see what happens… Lovely set up and discussions on where to put which colour, accompanied by sound effects “little plip” meaning a small amount of a particular colour. Conversations about what you’d get…
beach again (24.08.18)
such a hard life this ensuring we get regular exercise…. and eat well… This is damper. Flour, water, salt and in this case I made it fancy and rubbed in butter and added yeast. You wrap it around a stick and hold it over a fire and when it’s done you pull it off the…
eating science (24.08.18)
The other day we tried working out the density of rocks but it didn’t really work -the whole problem of two variables not one and so I thought I’d revise our density experiment but re-brand it as dom dom dom the “density cake experiment…” Helena likes to make these things we call microwave potions, my…
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