I first taught H to knit years ago. She wanted to learn, but she was so little. I guess she wanted to as it is what I do, usually while ‘watching’ TV, gotta keep those hands busy. I have been knitting for years. I am not an expert like lots of my friends or like…
Tag: Projects
check it out
H made this all on her own, in her room by herself… no help, just following instructions. I remember when she had difficulty with the fine motor skills. I can remember when reading was hard. When she needed me to translate.. It’s so cool.
yay finished
I am quoting someone else when I say “I hate science fair” but I sort of do… oh dear I am already moving into the glow of the baby being delivered and forgetting the pain. It was so painful. Not the initial part when my darling enthusiastically got the idea and jumped totally into it….
if
If I had written this last week this would be a different story.. a happy story. A story about how much work H did during the week on her science fair project, how she was self motivated and interested (her library books were not just on her science fair topic but also about learning and…
being responsive
This week we chucked all that. H has volunteered to be a scientific Guinea pig. She has enrolled in an asthma study. It turns out this IS really interesting. Now we are doing science and producing something for the up coming science fair on asthma. I have got us cow lungs to dissect. So far…
I hate this time of year
I hate the beginning of every term. This term beginning seems especially bad. I do feel somewhat excited when I think of all the possibilities, I make the usual hopeful promises but I constantly don’t live up to them. For instance I haven’t been writing this blog much recently despite several termly resolutions as I…
Little bits
Our real lives are full of little bits of this and that… The witch and the cherry tree in Lego… all just because…..
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…
I believe this..
We can not teach someone something unless there are one or more of the following conditions: The thing is actually relevant to a learner’s genuine life. The learner genuinely finds the subject/thing actually interesting (this one is hard as you don’t always know what you will find interesting) and this can also be because the…
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