the table we eat all our meals at between meals….. the bedroom floor… the desk that can’t be used due to the mess created while using it…. Last week our virtue was cleanliness (partly a er sort of joke…) but the house was somewhat cleaner for that week. It is a hard road to navigate…
Tag: creativity
you can’t escape the wheels of commerce (09.18)
We went tramping, which is a many hours walk up a big hill carrying everything you need… all to stay in a nice one room hut with no electricity, or kitchen and an outside loo with a spectacular view (“you care about views Mummy, I don’t”). I often wonder why people go tramping, especially with…
the fine line of art with kids.. (05.09.18)
So the quandary is do you get the kids to do it your way? I saw the best art lesson ever as a beginning teacher in Marie Hickey’s class. She had a chair on a table in the middle of the room and the kids were all at their own desks around it and she…
writing week (27-31.08.18) with no slapping
For some reason this week Helena did some writing… was she not worried about details, that first time perfection? She did have something to say, and has rather enjoyed the re-reading and likes reading it to me. It says – “I thought this in the night and thought Mum would like it so I waited…
Thursday pm (30.08.18)
What I saw (in-between doing my own thing) was a kid in flow…. this was a sustained activity punctuated by excitedly telling me what she was doing. It all had to do with colour, food colouring. The process started with the making of the colour in the palette – using words like complimentary, opposite. There…
Thursday am (30.08.18)
Setting: a house, our house Plot: I was making the babies food – they are all babies who have lost their Mums in the war and some of them are injured (Florence Nightingale is this weeks person to study). for instance Panda is short but the person who shot their mum was walking which means…
experiments in doing what I said I’d do (27.8.18)
What I said I’d do after watching the kids watch Fantasia was set up painting stuff and play stirring classical music and see what happens… Lovely set up and discussions on where to put which colour, accompanied by sound effects “little plip” meaning a small amount of a particular colour. Conversations about what you’d get…
beach again (24.08.18)
such a hard life this ensuring we get regular exercise…. and eat well… This is damper. Flour, water, salt and in this case I made it fancy and rubbed in butter and added yeast. You wrap it around a stick and hold it over a fire and when it’s done you pull it off the…
eating science (24.08.18)
The other day we tried working out the density of rocks but it didn’t really work -the whole problem of two variables not one and so I thought I’d revise our density experiment but re-brand it as dom dom dom the “density cake experiment…” Helena likes to make these things we call microwave potions, my…
watching Fantasia in the age of TV you don’t have to work for…. (22.08.18)
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…
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