Category: Home Ed Life
Mercenary offspring.
Small wants to get in on the current earning money challenge – he’s drawing pictures to sell. This is quite a step away from his standard approach of drawing them and giving them to anyone who expresses interest! I think I should try scanning a few in for display purposes, but I’m also going to…
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Concern over age bands for books
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Concern over age bands for books In the normally sedate gardens of the Edinburgh Book Festival, it is causing quite a furore. From this autumn, a number of publishing houses will “age band” their children’s books. Each book will carry a specific marking indicating they…
Every park needs a pirate.
So we provided one. He wasn’t this sad throughout the whole day, this was because of the sticks in the ground – they were for rounders, but he felt it was deeply wrong to shove things into the ground, and I had to remonstrate to get him to leave them there. On some levels, he’s…
Small is reading.
After a long chat with Tim’s brother last night, Tim and I came to the conclusion that Small needs whole word recognition, that phonics is not going to be the way forward for him. A has been doing that a small amount at school with him too, but today he sat and read Read at…
a reading
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…
who you calling chicken?
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 🙂
Some government dept, somewhere.
NDS – News Distribution Service 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…
English is too hard to read for children | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk
English is too hard to read for children | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk Monkey, asparagus, spinach, caterpillar, dwarf, banana, handkerchief, pliers, soldiers, stomach, petal and telescope have all been included on the long list of words that baffle children because they contain letter combinations that are more commonly pronounced in a different way. Interesting article…
more blogging
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.…
birthday walk (the montessori way).
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. What’s the…