Learning to love learning
The world around us is complex and confusing for adults at the moment, let alone for children. The girls have only ever attended international schools where there has been a huge diversity in ethnicity, race, religions and cultures all of which we have embraced. Seeing what has been happening in the UK and the US … Continue reading Civil Rights
Never a learning moment missed in this house! Through my curriculum tracking against the National Curriculum I had noticed that we hadn’t taught any levers, cogs or paper engineering. At a loss as to how to shoehorn this into a child led learning moment the objectives have been festering at the back of my mind … Continue reading Father’s Day Design Technology
It rained pretty solidly for the first two weeks in France so every time Flossy asked if we could go on a picnic the answer was a firm no! We are t sure why she loves picnics so much, but she asked almost every day until we promised that, as soon as the weather broke, … Continue reading Flossy gets us to go on a picnic
The girls really do have an insatiable want and need for knowledge and learning, I know that as teachers and we start learning never stops... but seriously! So when we got to the lake on our day trip the beach and the lake were still closed due to coronavirus. (Toilets too but that is another … Continue reading Learning by the lake
Finally, after months and months locked down in Italy and France we went out for the afternoon as a family. The excitement was palpable. Parks in a France reopened this week so we packed a picnic - note about this on another blog - and drove to the nearby lake in st. Estephe. The girls … Continue reading We drove somewhere!
We want to make sure we consolidate Freya’s amazing maths progress with frequent practice. This can be quite labor intensive on the parent teacher... this was my sneaky trick this week. We were spending so much time on the Smobots writing project I needed maths to be quick and easy to pick up and go. … Continue reading Reducing parent workload
The lovely Zia Carol sent us a new challenge after the still life success.... self portraits. Being in the house of a very talented artist we could find mobile mirrors for the purpose that had no doubt been used for self portraits in the past. I set the girls up in front of the fire … Continue reading Self portraits
Not to be out done, Flossy embarked on her own version of Freya’s book and called it the ‘Snobots’. To give Freya credit she as incredibly supportive of this and encouraged Flossy in every way. Flossy was not keen on planning anything, nor second drafting anything, but as she has been writing for less than … Continue reading Flossy’s ‘Snobots’
It has taken her days and days to write up her book in ‘best’ and complete the illustrations. One morning we found her at the dining room table working at 7:03 am! That is intrinsic motivation for you. Flossy and a Freya writing at 7am before we had woken up! She is so proud of … Continue reading Writing up the final draft
We read the whole story aloud to the family... Freya was so proud of her work she practically beamed! Once she had celebrated her achievement the editing began. Daddy talked to Freya about the process he went through before his book was published. The number of edits he did and the new drafts he wrote. … Continue reading The final edit lesson five
