well I am writing a 3000 word report… what are you doing my darling daughter? there’s this, “I am getting into lego technics” “this goes all the way to the roof…” and some thing about how “it’s physics mum…” “I was just playing around with my knot book” ooo and I can see my darling…
Tag: just weird
It is getting harder to write these posts
Mainly as my child is getting older. Her learning isn’t as photogenic.. not as subtle, perhaps. Today, we went to the NMIT (Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology). I saw squillions of things I wanted to “do”.. to play with. Big machines you could cut wood or metal with. I saw a room full of silk…
it looks like school to me
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…
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…
so many words
I am doing my Masters and my current course is about play based learning, the value of play, in early childhood. I took the course thinking it was about play based learning fullstop, I just didn’t notice the ECE caveat because of course ECE is play based (aparently not!!) I thought. There are so many…
then there is this
I mean, one minute she is writing better than me, then next there is this obsession. She buys sticker books and then spends ages cutting the stickers out…. She says, “I like the feel.” There is apparently no word of it. It’s to do with the shapes and colours, cutting patiently around the edges! Making…
what happens at when I can’t see
H has been sick and spent a few days watching TV. This just happened to coincide with an interview on Radio New Zealand about how we don’t totally relax. I went with the whole mind-numbing TV thing until I was too restless and started some random projects, so my eyes were off the ball. H…
Maths and more maths…
I have done very little maths teaching with H. I mostly just seize the moment when moments happen, like when she has money and there are sales to get her to learn more about percentages… even then, she had worked the links between 1/2 and 50% and how to find 50% by dividing a number…
dividends…
We did school again and there were unexpected results… Check it out. The first class was us doing DeBono’s hats over an exhibition that had what we are now calling “dead things” in it. Wondering is this acceptable? We went and saw the exhibition with some friends for the next lesson. H wandered round and…
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