Tag: Montessori minded
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…
Echoes of the past.
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 weekend
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…
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,…
Master of the universe | Technology | The Observer
Master of the universe | Technology | The Observer 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…
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)…
Books finished today
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…
Remiss.
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…
staff meetings and bureaucracy
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…
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…