So often when I ask Helena to do things I just want them done… from “get your shoes we need to go” to the slightly terse “pick your stuff up off the floor”. Mostly easy things in my head, a bit of working out the most efficient way and I’d have it done in minutes….
Category: thoughts
who is this
They are up before their Grandfather… are dressed even and have even eaten! There is some kind of list on the go – written the night before. Now, day two of getting up, there are even finished projects… Shakespeare themed mini cushions…. This motivation is something to do with getting prepared to go to school…
yay finished
I am quoting someone else when I say “I hate science fair” but I sort of do… oh dear I am already moving into the glow of the baby being delivered and forgetting the pain. It was so painful. Not the initial part when my darling enthusiastically got the idea and jumped totally into it….
My kid’s passions
H is totally cognisant of her passions, she is the one who calls them her passions. They are: Shakespeare, Photography, playing the cello, reading, lego and writing (not on paper but in her head) and making things… “There are quite a few things Mum” “They are what I like doing, and what I like”. How…
What 11 year olds do
H has been a bit sad as she has noticed that as kids age they stop “playing”.. Playing as defined by her is more of a physical, immersive thing that involves talking but usually accompanied by physically doing something such as building a base and talking the process and the story as the game. I…
if
If I had written this last week this would be a different story.. a happy story. A story about how much work H did during the week on her science fair project, how she was self motivated and interested (her library books were not just on her science fair topic but also about learning and…
being responsive
This week we chucked all that. H has volunteered to be a scientific Guinea pig. She has enrolled in an asthma study. It turns out this IS really interesting. Now we are doing science and producing something for the up coming science fair on asthma. I have got us cow lungs to dissect. So far…
I hate this time of year
I hate the beginning of every term. This term beginning seems especially bad. I do feel somewhat excited when I think of all the possibilities, I make the usual hopeful promises but I constantly don’t live up to them. For instance I haven’t been writing this blog much recently despite several termly resolutions as I…
Is what you are teaching preparing children for the climate emergency?
I have been cleaning at a high school, I get paid to do exercise and listen uninterrupted to pod casts. I do it in part because I know what it feels like to walk into a clean classroom room and feel that “today is a new day” feeling however terrible the day before was, and…
the report
as in last years, a bit late due to some apathy on my part that has lasted for the last term of last year and the first term of this year!! and a graph we did just because
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