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How important is it that his games teach as well as entertain? ‘I’m not sure teach is the right word,’ he says. ‘Computer games and simulations are much more powerful [as an aid] to motivate than to teach. I’d rather have a game that got a person [...]
Right-brained Children in a Left-brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child Jeffrey Freed.
Borrowed this one from Kirsty following ponderings on Small, who most definitely doesn’t fit into standard assessments of learning styles or behaviours. I don’t know whether he’s right brained though, as he cheated on the test I gave him to find [...]
I can’t remember Friday day - I know that I got up early enough to shove camping stuff into the car, and then I went to work, but I can’t actually remember work apart from continuously looking at my phone to find out whether it was time to go yet.
Tim took the kids out and [...]
Today we went to Roche Abbey
We played hide and seek
Admired the spots on a ladybird
Threw Pooh sticks
And waited for them to reappear
… and Small has learnt to play with the stream…
Today we went to Bolsover Castle. It is only two villages away, so of course, we haven’t been there in the six years since we moved here. Signed up for family membership to English Heritage while we were there (15 months for the price of 12).
High point for Big was the tree, which is a [...]
I have only ever been on the North Norfolk Railway and to a couple of museums including a trip long ago to the National Rail Museum in York so our trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway was pretty exciting for me as well as the smalls.
The railway extends south-west from Keighley in [...]
It occurred to me that this blog has been somewhat devoid of home educational reporting recently. That’s because we’ve come out of the sit-down-and-do-work stage that we went into a little while ago, it appeared to serve its purpose and kickstarted the learning process again. We now have voluntary turning off of the television [...]
Describes the day fairly well, although it wasn’t what I was thinking as I entered the title box.
Yesterday afternoon I made a superhuman effort to detach myself from computer chair and got down on the floor and we did mosaics. This seemed to go down well. The bedtime routine went well as well [...]
Feeling that we did more history on Friday night, seems to be the in thing atm. Sat morning wandered around packing up the car with overnight gear that included a tent (!) and we pootled off the path which was lovely. Lots of other puddlers there as well, and most of us stayed [...]
the children pretty much amused each other all day
This is a result. Oh, there were plenty of calls for referree-ing, but they amused themselves all day. I had printouts of 25 year calendars and sun dials to make, but they didn’t need me or laid on activities. They played imaginative [...]
Been like that here this morning.
After staying up ludicrously late working last night (and *still* not getting project in hand finished, doh!) I had set the alarm knowing that Sarah was dropping Dino off for the day around 10. I also knew that the nursery nurse was coming, but somehow I’d got that in [...]
He’s been sleeping on the compost bin for a while, but tonight he appears to have decided to move in. If he keeps the grotty cats from next door out, it’s a deal
And in other news, well, I already blogged the SALT phone call. Pulled up Something Special on the desktop [...]
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 [...]
finished with:
“And now I’m going to go work on some graphics. And study some java. Maybe do the washing up. Package up some ebay parcels.”
I thought I’d update you I washed up. Worked on some graphics. Didn’t do the parcels last night, but did get them posted today anyway. Didn’t [...]
hm, my blog appears to have disappeared under a welter of political links and news stories. Not quite sure how *that* happened.
So what have we been doing? Well, took Small for his slightly belated MMR this morning - he was ever so good. I think he understands rather more than he lets [...]
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Thanks to Dora, Big spent yesterday memorising her alphabet. Or at least attempting to ;). I didn’t realise Dora was the inspiration to begin with - didn’t recognise the song, I’m afraid. And I don’t know it, so my help was limited to writing out the alphabet, lower and upper case, for [...]
I’ve been toying with the idea of building a geodesic dome since someone posted instructions to a list (mp?) a while back. Felt like an outdoor activity though, but I was wondering about doing it at our puddlers group sometime, where at least we’ve got a big hall.
Big is sitting watching Extreme Archaeology, and [...]
Hm. Guess I’m not going to list NCIS as the font of all wisdom then
Let’s see, what have we done today? More primary history. Another reading lesson, another few grey hairs. Discussed it with Kirsty later, and decided a new approach is required - I’m getting locked into another of those string pulling [...]
We’ll start with the darker ones so that we can end on a high note.
Major achievement - getting through the day without throttling either child or bursting into tears. Not quite sure what’s the matter with me atm, must be partly stress related to the fact that I *still* haven’t heard about the results [...]
Aargh, they changed everything on CBeebies, and for the first time in ages we’ve got Nick Jr on at bedtime - where’s Kevin and the bedtime song? What’s a Jimmer Jammer when it’s at home? Although it has to be said that Small seemed to rather enjoy it, he was bopping away with [...]