I first taught H to knit years ago. She wanted to learn, but she was so little. I guess she wanted to as it is what I do, usually while ‘watching’ TV, gotta keep those hands busy. I have been knitting for years. I am not an expert like lots of my friends or like…
Current passion…
H’s current passion is photography. She has been interested in an abstract way for a while, but since my cousin gave her a point and shoot camera of her own, her interest has skyrocketed. She has filled up a 16GB SD card. She, Ms shy, has even had a conversation with a photographer: getting advice…
what I have noticed at pretend school
1- most often we have not finished at the time the bell goes and can be mid train of thought, or just at the nitty gritty good bit. It is totally unsatisfying. 2- the before lunch, Nayland college has a very late lunch (1:30 to 2:15) if you ask me, period is a total waste…
but wait there’s more..
Look at her, she is helping one of the customers… looking up his booking, showing him the way to his camp site. Map reading! Confident talking!
Cool stuff H has learnt
I am classifying something as learnt if it is something, in this case a definable task, she could not do before and can now successfully repeat the task without support. ta da… one bowl of two minutes noodles successfully made, for breakfast, on a small gas cannister stove, (lit using a lighter) outside while I…
Maths and more maths…
I have done very little maths teaching with H. I mostly just seize the moment when moments happen, like when she has money and there are sales to get her to learn more about percentages… even then, she had worked the links between 1/2 and 50% and how to find 50% by dividing a number…
dividends…
We did school again and there were unexpected results… Check it out. The first class was us doing DeBono’s hats over an exhibition that had what we are now calling “dead things” in it. Wondering is this acceptable? We went and saw the exhibition with some friends for the next lesson. H wandered round and…
Time
Today we did the “skater pond loop”. It’s a mostly single track easy mountain bike track. Nothing unusual, we’ve done it before. One time H was little, 7ish?, and it involved us taking most of the day to do it. Lots of stops/being tired. Another time I convinced her to go as there was a…
we played school and it was fun.
Helena is determined to go to high school and to be able to do this we are practicing- this was her idea. I looked up a local school’s bell times and an approximate kind of subject list. The bell times were nothing like what I remembered from all those eons ago when I was at…
“I don’t like art”
That’s what she says.. then she goes into her room. She spent hours on this idea. Everything was laid out, heads clothes and background lined up. They are called “Selfies from the animal kingdom” Rufus, he works at the bank, he loves coffee, and economics. This is Timothy. He is a palace guard. He likes eating…
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