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…
Tag: creativity
life is more complicated for some? children
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….
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…
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
Little bits
Our real lives are full of little bits of this and that… The witch and the cherry tree in Lego… all just because…..
Argh
I don’t know what to do. After a week of Helena madly working on paper dolls… well they started off paper dolls with photocopied cut out clothes (she’s not interested in designing her own) but blue tacking the clothes on was unsatisfactory so then it was tiny tabs, then tiny magnets followed by gluing the…
Another benefit of homeschooling..
I was at a quilting retreat in the weekend and there was a woman there who had had to put her kids in The Correspondence School because her husband had a job in the middle of nowhere, she was not someone who chose homeschooling, and her kids did regular school before and after this period….
random stuff of the week brought to you by rain
Rain, rain and more rain… It has rained every day for the last few weeks. Our garden is a bog, and a very muddy cold bog at that. We have been somewhat stuck inside – I know we could go brave the weather but neither of us want to…… So Helena has put her pile…
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