Category Archives: how we do it

Discussing curriculum and so on

In response to Gill

Posted on Sun Jan 4 2009 by Jax

How could I resist this? I started to respond in a comment, but it got rather long, so I thought it better removed to a post. There was a highly amusing thread on Brightkite as to what orgoplanning is – … Continue reading →

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Defensive orgo planning

Posted on Fri Jan 2 2009 by Jax

For pretty much as long as she has been able to talk, Big’s last question of the day has been “what are we doing tomorrow?” and my standard answer is “I don’t know yet”. I’m not a person who lives … Continue reading →

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Are there things you can’t learn at home?

Posted on Wed Jun 18 2008 by Jax

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 … Continue reading →

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Mummy, can I do some maths?

Posted on Mon May 30 2005 by Jax

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 … Continue reading →

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Thursday and I’ve barely blogged!

Posted on Thu Apr 14 2005 by Jax

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, … Continue reading →

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Family meeting

Posted on Mon Apr 11 2005 by Jax

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 … Continue reading →

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Shoe-string Publishing

Posted on Fri Mar 25 2005 by Jax

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

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Eek, I seem to have covered some of the national curriculum

Posted on Tue Jan 4 2005 by Jax

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 … Continue reading →

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Planning some stuff

Posted on Mon Sep 20 2004 by Jax

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 … Continue reading →

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Curriculum discussion

Posted on Mon Jun 7 2004 by Jax

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, … Continue reading →

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