She stuck this on the pantry door. It is total nonsense. Dad was totally fooled, he wanted to understand. The diagram was such that it implied some serious thought, something important. It has taken a gap (give the children time to respond, the child being me) to realise how clever this is. How un-observed she…
Tag: scientific research
revisiting
I know that one of my last posts was on revisiting, but I am revisiting revisitng until I get it straight in my head!! I remember ages ago when I worked at the toy library, hearing a parent say to their child, “Don’t get that one you have had it before”. It made me think…
dividends…
We did school again and there were unexpected results… Check it out. The first class was us doing DeBono’s hats over an exhibition that had what we are now calling “dead things” in it. Wondering is this acceptable? We went and saw the exhibition with some friends for the next lesson. H wandered round and…
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…
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…..
two weeks out
We are so incredibly lucky! We got to spend two weeks totally out of our normal life volunteering for the Department of Conservation at a Lodge at Nydia bay. Only 5 hours of power a day, no cellphone reception… no roads, shops and not even many people! We got dropped there by boat with our…
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…
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