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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Incidental education
During the day, Small in particular often asks peculiar questions or indulges in brief conversations that seem like they’ve gone nowhere, but then days or weeks later crop up again in his thinking. There is no way that I can … Continue reading
What the children did
Outsourcing the children for the morning was an excellent thing for them – while I’m sure they’d have enjoyed the scan bit of my morning, I’m just as sure they would not have enjoyed the well over an hour of … Continue reading
Yet another boring baby post :)
This isn’t meant to be a pregnancy blog, so I apologise for yet again droning on about baby stuff, but I’m so relieved by the scan and everything today that I just have to share Tim and I dropped the … Continue reading
edited highlights
mainly because blow by blow of how dreadful I feel isn’t interesting to me, and I’m sure it isn’t interesting to you either! Small wrote a story entitled “The story of Pregnancy” – it’s only a page long, but I … Continue reading
lookee who I found
in the Telegraph, Revealed: new teaching methods that are producing dramatic results Innovative headteachers at schools around the country are abandoning traditional chalk and talk teaching methods in favour of widely differing visions of an educational future. Judith Woods enters … Continue reading
A Little Spring Cleaning
We have a bench, a rather sad bench, covered in lichen. We will let it dry, clean off the last bits of lichen, wash it down and then it can be oiled. Big really worked hard and happily at a … Continue reading
Boredom, maths, hats and old buildings.
Most of the time the kids amuse themselves – I keep an eye on what they are up to and offer suggestions, facilitate interests, drag them out on outings and set up groups and visits. So far it seems to … Continue reading
Expensive day
With Big due to go to Brownies tonight, thought I ought to go out and get her something different for her footwear than the boots she’s been wearing all winter. As she’s usually very quick to tell me if there’s … Continue reading
Knitting and ecotech.
Today was my deadline before my second extension for my TMA, so obviously I was frantically writing it up and trying to finish it off yesterday. :/ Wonder if I’ll ever get to a point where I don’t run my … Continue reading
it’s the weekend
Not that you can really tell much difference around here tbh, the children play as they always play, and if they get bored I pull something else out, so today Small was doing another Bond paper, this time maths. I … Continue reading
Time to teach them how to think
Wellington College, one of the country’s top independent schools, has decided the time has come to teach its pupils how to think. To that end, it has employed a thinker-in-residence – writer and broadcaster Tony Buzan. It will be Mr … Continue reading
A good couple of days
Tim decided against sleeping on the floor at old house and came back in the middle of the night, meaning that I didn’t need to roust the children out and catch a bus to the hospital, but could instead drive, … Continue reading
the rest of the day
More Monopoly Junior, then they found a Smarties gift set with Ludo in it and played that, and then there was some Geomag-ing while they watched Blue Peter, Newsround and something or other else that I forget. Big has done … Continue reading
Gameplaying, bookreading, some music and more birds.
After a rocky start to the morning (“you’re the meanest mummy ever and I don’t care”, scream, wail, stamp, flounce – don’t slam that SLAM and so on) the day has improved. A bloke came round to quote on putting … Continue reading
What is an assessment focus?
From Why I abandoned teaching in the Guardian. “Hands up who has heard of assessment focuses?” The handouts went round. Brightly coloured sheets of paper, child friendly, covered in a complicated grid. “So, if you get a level 6, what … Continue reading
I appear to have misplaced Monday
ah yes, I remember, I did some maths. Was panicking about the fact that my week’s extension was nearly up and I had two whole question that I hadn’t even started, plus, I hadn’t tangled with the computer for any … Continue reading
You couldn’t make it up.
Brown is pondering “compulsory volunteers” – do you think we ought to buy him a dictionary? Does anyone in politics actually think things through before they spout them at the rest of the world? And if your children were in … Continue reading
Easter Sunday
We’ve been out for lunch and the afternoon today, round to Tim’s brother and sister-in-law’s for a lovely meal and then an afternoon of sun and chat. Well, the younger ppl went out in the garden, I went and sat … Continue reading
More sun, more gardening, and Doctor Who.
Small started our interactions today by having a tantrum at me for picking up his things from the middle of the floor and putting them on top of the shelves. He couldn’t get them from there, he pointed out, loudly. … Continue reading
Library, gardening and Weakest link.
Yesterday, after lying around feeling sorry for myself for a while (which seems to be a common theme among my friends atm ) I pulled myself together and took the children to the library. Big decided she wanted to have … Continue reading
