We have just been to a very frustrating council meeting. Helena put in a submission to the council. It was their annual plan which probably had no interest as such for Helena but she does think the council does things – our rubbish, the bike path being built around the corner, roads, she hears me…
Tag: real life
Watching Tv
We are soooo tried, I’ve hardly slept! I’m so tired, we NEED to watch TV (accompanied by some over the top acting ) Mummy? Of course I say “er NO” leading to foot stamping and complaining. How there isn’t anything else to do, really there isn’t. So her friend and I start a game of…
When a holiday programme is school
I really like the holiday programme I’m involved in. It’s how I think school should work… we have but three rules. Respect yourself and others. Respect our environment and equipment Respect play Aka the playcentre ‘rules’ which cover everything from going to the loo, keeping warm, staying inside the cones (boundary), saws, games, not being…
Lolly maths
I hate lollies, not so much them but the whole performance. The asking, begging, deciding what to have (at our old dairy it was mostly OK as Jitish would tease the kids and get them to work out what they could get, he seemed to get the whole process) then there is the weight on…
Mother’s day 2019
Pre event: Such a big event has to be planned for… so a week in advance this list was written. I’m not allowed to take a photo of the filled in sheet until after. I’m looking forward to the sipriss (even predictive text knew that was surprises). Next she had to enlist others as she…
“The road of life…”
Initially this was just a road for a remote controlled car, actually the ramp was made first which led to the road being made. They called it “the track of life” which led on to more ideas and more building… This became one of life’s “challenges”. This is an “obstacle”. A hard bit… This is…
going on Trips
Recently we have been on a few organised trips/events? Things where there is some other adult telling you stuff and being the person who knows. Other people have organised these and there were 3 in one week. We have done 1: Stream Care: This is a model of a water catchment. Helena was most proud…
Topics…
I can’t say ‘doing’ a topic seems to work like I imagined. Mostly I don’t know what sort of topicish stuff Helena thinks about, I suspect that she sort of thinks about lots of things in the back of her mind while doing something else. We occasionally talk about stuff (as in not what her…
Hope..
That’s what it felt like this morning… …when Nelson Boys college turned up and did a haka, when the Head Girl at Nelson Girls did a karakia then spoke so articulately, when Nelson Central School turned up with their school banner, Hope Primary School in their sports uniform so you knew it was their school,…
Life is good
So we volunteered for DoC for a week. We had to collect campground fees for two camp sites in the late afternoon and evenings but most of the days were ours so what did we do? Hiking and biking… well we had to drop the truck off in the morning and walk back to our…
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