At the weekend I found a diary that I kept for around 18 months in the late 90s. It details a relationship or two, a job or two, my state of mind, and most particularly, at least to my state of mind tonight, it details the evening when I called my parents’ house to find [...]
another car load of stuff.
I don’t think of us as particularly materialistic (stop sniggering at the back there) yet the amount of stuff is phenomenal, granted a lot of it is books, or things I should have got rid of but haven’t, but even so. Today I bagged up another bag of rubbish [...]
If you don’t know what a Montessori Great Lesson is, or what it’s about, I recommend you tootle off to see Miss Barbara. If you’re wondering why you would do that with elementary age children (6 - 12), there’s a wiki page (isn’t there always a wiki page somewhere?) that explains it.
First of all, I [...]
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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 [...]
started by the fact that I didn’t surface until 12.30, as I was finishing off my book, The Margarets Not sure that I can be bothered to write a separate book review post (although I ought, as there are a couple of other books I’ve read that I haven’t reviewed yet. But there you) [...]
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 [...]
In blogging. I will regret that if I don’t catch up a little as it will be a week I can’t remember. So some highlights, or at least memory prompts.
Walking - I’ve walked to friend’s house to feed her cat 5 times, but not Thursday as it was really rather wet. I feel good about [...]
Have I spelt that right? It looks very wrong.
Anyway, this morning I took another trip out to the park. I was amused by the way so many parents ignored our presence when they realised we weren’t parents, avoiding eye contact, stepping away from the item of equipment we were using and so on. I suspect [...]
K rang tonight to find out if I had chosen/ decided on a reading. I said there’s a little poem, just about 12 lines I was thinking of, and she cried down the phone at me, as it’s the poem she would like to be able to read, but knows perfectly well that she won’t [...]
I keep thinking I’ve cried about enough and then someone says something nice, or I catch the eye of another member of the family and I’m crying all over again. Then again, we did difficult things today - went to the funeral home and saw the body in a coffin. I really didn’t want to [...]
We’ve had the offer of a rescued chicken at school, and it is something we’ve considered previously. But we’ve also had problems with a mink taking our rabbits, so I’m wondering how on earth we’d keep a chicken safe - I’d be very grateful for any input from anyone with experience
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From 2010 the new scheme will form part of personal skills accounts that will be available to all adults and will guarantee free training for older people up to at least level 2 GCSE equivalent. In todays Paper, Ministers will also announce a pilot to fund and support training up to [...]
end of first week with new member of staff on board - we’ve got by through quite a challenging week so that’s gone fairly well. I’m beginning to feel on top of classroom management on some days - for some reason Thursday seems to go a bit pear shaped, obviously need to work harder then. [...]
First of all, gather your children into an ellipse, sitting on chairs in the children’s house. Then you can start
The 29th May 2003 was a very special day - that was the day that Small was born! We’re going to do a birthday walk - what do we need?
A candle. [...]