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…
Tag: free play
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…
dunno what to do? (16-8-18)
So we didn’t have a Monday meeting this week – it is when we talk about what we want to do for the week and it just means when we are at a loss I can say “well we said we’d do this.” Often we find we are allergic to what it was we said…
TV nation (15-8-18)
or DVD maths? Questions posed by Helena when sorting the DVDs: Who has the most DVDs? easy make piles, look at the piles, and the biggest is the most….. next question due to there being both DVDs and Videos Is that true? piles were counted. Helena has 15 and I have “you have two more…
more on the qualities of wax (the weekend)
We are making non plastic shopping bags (fundraising for nature, a KCC challenge) and printing on them a design of Helena’s called Happy Fish – it says “thanks for not littering” and she recently added “keep our drains clean”. So I in full on make stuff up as you go mode, experiment before reading, trace over…
the balloons that keep giving… 08-08-18
blowing and sucking back the air you blew into the balloons putting water into the balloons how much water can you put in until they explode? how much air can you put in until they explode? rolling water filled balloons down the path tying up the balloons with harakeke – we didn’t want them to…
duplo maths 09-08-18
So we used to play this game which started when we got out some lego out at the library and the 5 kids were more interested in the computer and were peeved off that I didn’t get the star wars lego. So I sat there sorting the colours into piles, lego looks so like lollies,…
sometimes it looks like “school” 01.08.18
… except that this is at some random time of the day… Helena’s working on a patch of sun on the floor where she wanted to work… she could work and eat at the same time… didn’t have to ask to go to the loo… helped write her own ‘worksheet’… and I was having a…
weird project x – Friday July 27th 2018
Tools balloons brought with your own money loom bands daffodil stems metal straw frozen grapes Method Blow up balloons… discover that you can use a daffodil stem as a straw especially when it’s tied on with a loom band… connect two balloons… blow one up and squeeze the air from one balloon to the other……
Term 3 day 1….
What did we do today?…. well it is day one of a very new term, and we have been on holiday. In reality we didn’t need to go down that path after all every day is a holiday as much as it is a school day. It depends on who asks as to whether I…
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