I have done role playing because I had friends who were really into it (and some still play) but I was really just a visitor – I turned up, played (and enjoyed my self) but I didn’t learn how to run a game, how to be the one responsible, how it all worked. I saw…
Tag: empathy
a factory
The kids are not suited to factory work. My idea was to give them some thing to think about; process, where their food comes from, some grasp on how food is processed, and how other children’s lives were and still are in other places. Of course I didn’t as such say that to them… I…
Pigs in Nature
By Helena (so nearly 7) A pig lay under some plants on some dry dirt. All of it’s life it had longed to have a friend, it was very lonely. When one day two more pigs came. At first they were shy then they started to play together. They enjoyed playing on trampolines, they played…
learning from one’s peers
Helena had to, and wanted to, write a birthday card for her cousin. She had plans about the layout and getting to draw hearts but her friend was here…. fortunately for everybody her enthusiasm and joy about the task was enough to entice her friend (who is not a big drawer or writer) to the…
Noticing stuff…
Helena had an asthma episode (she has been hospitalised several times) last weekend and had to have redipred but no hospital. A few days later this…. This is written on a clipboard from her medical kit which has also been dragged out from the depths of the dress up box.. it has the patient’s name,…
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…
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