Big is learning something new atm. She’s learning how to deal with another child coming in to her group seemingly as a rival. Big is used to being the biggest, the most helpful, the child who can do things for the staff to help other children. And now we have another girl who is bigger, [...]
I love my daughter
She woke me this morning by asking me where the first man and woman came from, which lead to a good discussion about how various ppl believe different things, skirted quickly over a variety of creation stories, and landed on a discussion of the theory of evolution. Had to [...]
That’s no good, I won’t be able to remember a thing
Let’s see, Big stayed at Barbara’s after our group on Monday, and was brought back Tues afternoon. I spent Tues morning decluttering, reasonably successfully, and it must have catching, as Tim got to work on the back bedroom.
Barbara came round [...]
Tomorrow (ok today now that it’s taken me so long to blog!) would be Big’s first legally required day at school, were she going to school. She isn’t, before you start worrying that I’m about to post her!
So today we sat down and discussed home education. Small didn’t sit down, he [...]
Shoe-string Publishing
I’m gonna try some of this stuff with Big. I specially like the Feeling poems. Wishing I hadn’t chucked out that ancient desk diary now…but I’ve a feeling last years is still about somewhere
how did that happen then?
We did all this. in November. Wonder if there’s anything else we’ve covered without knowing it.
Anyway, today.
I’m afraid it hasn’t been the calmest start to the New Year. Shouty mummy made a big come back - something to do with having a madcap little girl, and a very inquisitive little [...]
Right, I’ve just been through and made a whole bunch of categories - now when I blog I can store posts against one or more categories, and it should make pulling out the info of what we’ve done a bit easier.
Also means that I might remember to broaden what we are doing a bit more [...]
If we break this down into areas it works quite well at the moment as dd needs basic skills that can be described quite clearly.
Reading: letters, sounds, words, lots of reading practise and listening to stories.
Maths: numbers, adding, dividing, subtracting in real life situations. Using manipulatives (cuisenaire rods, soon to be pattern blocks, hama beads).
Science: [...]