Tag: Jonny had two apples
Mixed day
After the post this morning we retired to the kitchen for some more maths. Small did another 20 additions with the base 10 blocks, and we found what level he begins to struggle at, so now we know where we need to be working 🙂 Big was another story. We’d been doing fractions at school,…
Big's plan
Sitting down with Big to work out what she thinks she ought to be doing during this home ed lark. This is being typed pretty much as we speak, so will be somewhat disjointed 🙂 We both think that maths should be a regular activity, as maths gets easier if you practise it. She wants…
Cookbook correction
It’s this one: The Children’s Step-by-step Cook Book – I found it this morning in one of the stashes of stuff still unhomed after the christmas excess. She was very pleased to see it, but too busy making flowers to look through for a recipe for lunch, so I guess it’s sandwiches again. Small agreed…
Defensive orgo planning
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 by plans, and my children are, so I figure that this time around with home…
Fun ways to learn about parallel lines
This was our maths lesson for the day today 🙂 I’ve had to remove the embedded instructable movie as it was causing problems for IE users, but the project is the Super-cool easy 6 pointed snowflake – More DIY How To Projects It seemed to go down rather well, or at least it did after…
The first great lesson.
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,…
Some more books
Over the last month or so, I’ve read a trilogy by Trudi Canavan, The Magicians’ Guild, The Novice, and The High Lord. I picked the first one up from the library on a whim and they were good enough that I ordered the second two, and devoured them within a day each time. They didn’t…
A good day
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)…
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Putting percentages in context
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Putting percentages in context Percentages might make news stories stand out, but without a connection to the human experience, can become meaningless. Wouldnt it be good to have the mental agility to separate the wheat from the chaff? In his third lesson of a weekly series, author Michael Blastland gives…
lessons in life
Today I found the right motivation to teach Small some more maths. I informed him that if he could count his own money out of the pile, he could have the same pocket money at Big gets (£1 a week) rather than the 50p he’s been getting. It took an hour, but he counted out…