Today we did the “skater pond loop”. It’s a mostly single track easy mountain bike track. Nothing unusual, we’ve done it before. One time H was little, 7ish?, and it involved us taking most of the day to do it. Lots of stops/being tired. Another time I convinced her to go as there was a…
Tag: just weird
the week that was
Monday: it’s a public holiday but H is doing geography- this started as she had to be a detective to work out what country her book The Hardy boys is set in. She worked out the book was old due to word usage “fellows” and “chums” and leaving the girls behind… She is using an…
life is more complicated for some? children
So often when I ask Helena to do things I just want them done… from “get your shoes we need to go” to the slightly terse “pick your stuff up off the floor”. Mostly easy things in my head, a bit of working out the most efficient way and I’d have it done in minutes….
testing
There is always something in the press about testing and how the kids are failing. Testing is a thing I associate with science. The importance in science is a fair test and this requires This makes sense right. If, for instance, you grew a plant in two different places but were actually testing the the…
learning from your kids
I am starting, at 52, to enjoy Shakespeare after nearly 40 years of total aversion. Why? Because my child loves the language and the drama of it all. Weirdo. She is at the moment at the end of the table reciting from a book of Shakespeare’s poems and excerpts from plays… getting more and more…
Argh
I don’t know what to do. After a week of Helena madly working on paper dolls… well they started off paper dolls with photocopied cut out clothes (she’s not interested in designing her own) but blue tacking the clothes on was unsatisfactory so then it was tiny tabs, then tiny magnets followed by gluing the…
the farm
Yesterday Helena told me that although one of the projects (making an island) a friend of hers did at school appealed to her there were aspects she was glad she didn’t have to do with a similar project she is working on…. a project started months and months ago! One was that she got to…
it’s not fair
We have been back home from work in Wellington for 2 days. So far every morning Helena bounces out of bed and goes off to do one of her weird and wonderful tasks… In fact the moment we walked in the door off the bus she was making flour and water glue to start doing…
first day back in homeschool land
We’ve been away on and off for nearly 2 months and just had over four weeks in the big smoke. Helena has been itching to get back home, mostly to see her “babies” (the rats), and has been doing lots of complaining that I drag her here, there and everywhere and she never, ever gets…
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