A seven and six year old snuggled on the couch waiting – thinking Mickey Mouse and cartoon. I press play on the VIDEO… “this is sooo boring” “when’s Mickey Mouse going to come?” 5 minutes of that then….. 5 minutes more…. and finally “I think it’s space, maybe they are umbrellas… ” “what do you think…
Category: thoughts
it’s Physical Education/health… (21.08.18)
Mixed with a little bit of physical geography… slope stability? Hmmm maybe I should make it history and show Helena pictures of music festivals and hippies! We went to the beach with the Tuesday homeschooling group and even better, a beach we’d never been to before. I think of the homeschooling group as all the…
dunno what to do? (16-8-18)
So we didn’t have a Monday meeting this week – it is when we talk about what we want to do for the week and it just means when we are at a loss I can say “well we said we’d do this.” Often we find we are allergic to what it was we said…
TV nation (15-8-18)
or DVD maths? Questions posed by Helena when sorting the DVDs: Who has the most DVDs? easy make piles, look at the piles, and the biggest is the most….. next question due to there being both DVDs and Videos Is that true? piles were counted. Helena has 15 and I have “you have two more…
pump track (14 – 8 – 18)
So happy… a few months ago Helena would never have done this. She learnt to ride a bike in February and now she is doing a dirt track! Woohoo. She can climb trees like a monkey, go straight up a pole, hang upside down and climb moving objects, bounces flying foxes is physically confident and…
Helena’s first solo Learning Story (8 – 8 -18)
it says “On Monday I went to the Opera. It was fabulous. There was 5 characters, 1 was one of the audience.” Succinct
more on the qualities of wax (the weekend)
We are making non plastic shopping bags (fundraising for nature, a KCC challenge) and printing on them a design of Helena’s called Happy Fish – it says “thanks for not littering” and she recently added “keep our drains clean”. So I in full on make stuff up as you go mode, experiment before reading, trace over…
a day of many parts (10-08-18)
We have been talking about making our own candles recently and finally we did it. It’s not how the day started…. we got up to find the little bit of water on the kitchen floor (I’d bet Helena spilt some water and didn’t say) was a somewhat larger puddle (sorry Helena). Pull out the stove,…
the balloons that keep giving… 08-08-18
blowing and sucking back the air you blew into the balloons putting water into the balloons how much water can you put in until they explode? how much air can you put in until they explode? rolling water filled balloons down the path tying up the balloons with harakeke – we didn’t want them to…
duplo maths 09-08-18
So we used to play this game which started when we got out some lego out at the library and the 5 kids were more interested in the computer and were peeved off that I didn’t get the star wars lego. So I sat there sorting the colours into piles, lego looks so like lollies,…
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