She stuck this on the pantry door. It is total nonsense. Dad was totally fooled, he wanted to understand. The diagram was such that it implied some serious thought, something important. It has taken a gap (give the children time to respond, the child being me) to realise how clever this is. How un-observed she…
so many words
I am doing my Masters and my current course is about play based learning, the value of play, in early childhood. I took the course thinking it was about play based learning fullstop, I just didn’t notice the ECE caveat because of course ECE is play based (aparently not!!) I thought. There are so many…
Scary blank page
Today, I woke up after being sick for a while, and my brain was a buzz. When I was last sick, I wrote to a friend of my mother’s, and before I posted the letter she died. My mother and her were really good friends, one who believed in God and one who didn’t. They…
working together
I have been thinking about community. There are homeschool communities all over the local area. There is a bulletin board that advertises events that are coming up, but they are just the general things… To join one of the groups, you have to know someone. Occasionally, someone starts a new one with an enthusiastic florish…
Keeping it real
Maybe this is technology.. either that or it’s just some random kind of learning. Now, a treasure hunt is a good thing if you want no client input. It’s all secret… and you can hang out undisturbed in your room. This was no whip up, that’s for sure. One morning, she even got up at…
the tyranny of the right answer
I was recently in a classroom where the kids were doing times tables practice. I don’t know my times tables, well I have a wee gap, but I can work them out or use a calculator. The class practiced by first playing bingo, then had individual quizzes on a specific times table. When it was…
Our days are numbered
Helena has said repeatedly now that she will go to high school. Mostly, she is consistent with this. This means we only have until the end of this year left. I am of two minds. I know that high school is primarily a waste of time if your interests are academic .. well, depending on…
gifted
I have been thinking about this recently as I am trying to think of a way to provide educational opportunities that would make money to pay rent to have a place to provide these opportunities and I thought maybe the idea that what you provide was for gifted children would get a certain kind of…
adult school
I like learning, and I particularly like learning about ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’… I think this is what makes me a teacher. I chose my last assignment to be a video and an explanation. I am a little sad it’s over.
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