These are called springs. You make them by folding, Helena can now do this extreeeemly quickly and with her eyes shut. There is now a basket of 80 of them “two more sets of 10 and there will be 100” sitting on her desk, as well as some cut card waiting for her to make…
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a normal day (20.09.18)
Some context: I leave Helena to do what she will with her day. I am attempting to see what she will independently do. I don’t tell her this but after a while every time the alarm goes she says “ask me what I’m doing mummy”… I want to know how long she sustains a period…
not growing out of things (19.09.18)
Pirates…. Helena has been into pirates since, well ages… er 3 ish? I have no idea where she heard of them. I asked her why she liked them years ago and she said something like “because they are fierce” not even she knew how she knew that. I made her a pirate outfit (with instruction)…
it’s all about the process but I wish I had cleaners….
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…
four out of five isn’t bad (14.09.18)
it says – Read books go to the library play do the garden Happy Fish printing Today I said we really should finish up stuff however Helena wanted me to read to her so I said “put it on a list” and went and got dressed… then I came out to find this and weirdly…
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…
THE famous five… and a wee Rebel girls rant
Enid Blyton wrote 21 Famous Five books… I don’t have to look that up, I just ask Helena. We are on book 14, we missed one, and had to get the library to order one because it wasn’t at either of the libraries we belong to. We may not have to read the last one…
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