except she chose the activities that she has decided that are crucial… This is handwriting, mirror handwriting, upside down writing, left-hand writing, and handwriting in her own personal code. The words are from her Shakespeare insults calendar. “Now I am doing my ds the right way all the time..” Joined up writing to follow! Handwriting…
Tag: Dumb stuff
Homeschool kids play school
they even have a timetable and they stuck to the timetable.. (they must be French as there is no school on a Wednesday) Perriod one: Technology. The top photo is the big kids class where they got nets of cars to cut out and assemble. The bottom is the junior class where they made sculptures…
not doing my assignment
ooo don’t get me started on self-directed education, I might go on and on and on. That is not what my assignment is on. It is on something interesting that I have been enjoying reading about, and I enjoyed learning to use Canva. However, that is not what I shall be marked on. I totally…
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…
it’s free…
The kids are really into going to the tip shop and charity shops. I get that it is like a treasure trove and you never know what you will find. The thing I find hard is that often it is because they just want to spend the money, “its burning a hole in your pocket”…
Cr#p my kid makes…
I have been having something of an existential crisis, again. I went to an art school years ago and have a zillion ideas. Recently I went to a gallery and it had an exhibition of the finalists in The Wallace award. I am arrogant enough (confident in my ideas and of my ability to execute…
Show and tell
Just for fun we have show and tell at our Monday meeting. The meeting is when we talk about what we have on for the week, what we want to do, stuff we have to finish etc but it was a bit ho hum, adult heavy, so then we started show and tell- a reason…
Holidays are over..
Better start learning something, something official like… First – the title page… and goal setting? It suxed. Maybe I used to like that whole title page thing because the rest of the topic was so prescribed but perhaps for Helena, who gets to choose what to do, doing a title page suddenly seems as dumb…
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