When Helena chooses a trip they tend to be revisiting something she liked before. Helena use to love Capital E which is mainly for preschoolers so runs more or less school hours. I think it is occasionally a bit twee. This time we had to go in a weekend… So there were even more than…
Tag: Self-directed learning
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…
Show and tell
Just for fun we have show and tell at our Monday meeting. The meeting is when we talk about what we have on for the week, what we want to do, stuff we have to finish etc but it was a bit ho hum, adult heavy, so then we started show and tell- a reason…
Vases, vases, vases..
So I let my child follow her obsessions, learn what she wants… who am I to say what is Important to learn, that her passions are not valuable, however weird they are. This is todays hours of work after an epiphany, “I can draw vases of flowers,” that she had at 10:30pm when she wasn’t…
She’s gone…
well it had to happen… Saturday 9th of March Helena finished a whole chapter book in the morning, in one sitting, from beginning to end. She was pretty pleased with herself. She told me the plot but only because I asked… I guess I will have a part-time child. I wonder when I’ll be supplying…
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…
THE swimming lessons
So for Helena’s birthday I gave her swimming lessons. They were for 20 mins a day for two weeks. I was nervous as I didn’t feel she was the ‘good beginner’ that I signed her up for – the head under the water thing was still somewhat daunting for her. The first lesson she cried……
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