I was listening to Catherine Ryan (Radio NZ) talking to a man about how to tell which kids will succeed, he was talking about testing, but it’s all about what they do when they fail, how they react to failure, what they do with the questions they get wrong. I was also discussing with a…
Tag: real life
Home again..
After 14 weeks in the “coolest little capital” in the world we get home to Nelson (I wonder how many lifts there are in Nelson?)…. Day 1: I meant to unpack but Helena’s friend (who I look after) is here… Not that they needed me to adjudicate any disputes today and seemed to have developed…
Maps..
Helena got lost recently, she went on ahead and when the somewhat slower 3 year old and I arrived she was gone. It was a very stressful hour as she happily went the wrong way, realised, turned around and came back. Unfortunately I’d given her the car key so couldn’t go looking. In some respects…
Poster design
So when you have an operation you can’t eat. One time I accidentally had a nibble of cucumber and it was correctly surmised by the surgeon and anesthetist that I’d nibbled while filling my kids lunch box. This time I nearly tried one of Helena’s new rice bubbles fortunately she reminded me in time then…. There…
Providing learning experiences..
Today I excelled…. Monday we went to a talk about this couch.Made by a group of community volunteers to commemorate the reopening of the Days Bay track that was wiped out by a big slip, it even took out the phone lines while my father was on the phone. It took years and a lot…
“promoting inclusive practices to support the needs and abilities of all learners.”
As in “I will work in the best interests of learners by:” This is one of the things I have to do it’s in OUR CODE. I am refreshing my teaching qualification. It’s free because teaching is a mugs game. There are 4 values 17 Commitments And 6 Standards. And I have to assess my…
Planting trees… and ideas
We went planting trees with some other homeschoolers and some students who were on a course learning how to be rangers. I called the students “teenagers” but I suspect they were older. Helena worked with a lovely young woman called Claire. I heard Helena talking, talking, talking. Helena said Claire thought she was a plant…
This weeks little bits of random…
Why does she have to do this at night… (well apart from her mother and grandmothers being night owls) “I JUST want to see if different countries have different weights of coins”. Or this one… Possibly she’s just delaying bed time by wanting to learn to tell the time- worried I’m sending her to bed…
Home baking
Or is it kitchen chemistry? I did baking at school as a teacher – it’s a common learning tool, process cooking is the lingo at playcentre. All that measuring, lots of language, kids like it, and that following of the instructions thing, with all those steps and the essential instructional language. Well Helena can follow…
The advantages to being able to choose…
Today Helena was being part of a factory… Cutting the ends. We are making Sanitary pads for Days for Girls, making pads for people in period poverty. We’d been to another factory, Pics peanut butter factory, earlier in the morning. We talked about how some people her age work… about women and girls having to…
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