Helena got up before me this morning and as I heard not a peep from her I lazed about for ages. When I eventually got up she was drawing a grid thing on a piece of paper and she was classifying her soft toys. Classification happens in her play all the time, rocks, buttons, toys……
Tag: Projects
Endless weird projects…
We often spend a lot of time at home… but this time so are others so we’ve certainly had more than usual electronic socialisation. Helena has been never endingly busy as usual but unusually has said she’s bored and wanted more screen time. All the ideas I have she’s poo pooed. Instead there has been:…
It’s not even day one…
Lockdown starts at 11:59pm… ie. it hasn’t even started yet, though we have not left the house for 3 days already, and our house looks like this. I confess some is mine, but I have cleaned the windows. My poor father.
Let them get bored..
There are so many things on the internet now that are designed to give your kids ideas of what to do while they are stuck at home quarantined, online schools, and some weird Homeschooling memes. I do quite like this one: Homeschooling is going well. Two students have been suspended for fighting and one teacher…
Doing it the hard way..
We have had the idea of making a raft for a long time. I had it as a kid and my sister and I built one, it was something to do with reading Tom Sawyer, the bit where they are rafting down the Mississippi living life fully and freely. Of course New Zealand rivers aren’t…
In Helena’s words
Hello my name is Helena Bieleski. I am 8 years old. I live in Nelson with my Mum and Grandpa. Me and Mum like to volunteer as Campground Hosts and Hut Wardens in Nelson Lakes National Park. In February me and my Mum were the hut wardens at Blue Lake, Rotomairewhenua. We went on a…
Mixed age play
When we put children in a classroom full of children the same age what happens is we reduce learning opportunities. Why do we do it? A lot of this is due to institutional structures. In Early Childhood you have to have particular ratios of adults to children which is all decided by the age of…
2019 the report
School is over for the year… Here is Helena 3 months later reading her report… being reflective.
On a make..
Helena had her making..making..make hat on today. Make no 1: a mask out of the cardboard packet ginger beer comes in. No 2: a clown’s nose out of a cream bottle No sellotape has been used yet! “look mum, I just think about the grass not string..” later she plaited the grass. No 3: a…
I am the bad guy…
It was our last day of having Helena’s friend. I had grand plans of doing all the things they liked best but they didn’t seem interested, not in my list anyway… and there is a storm raging and it’s raining. So what did they do? Making something, it kept changing. I’m not sure it was…
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