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The Apprentice: Week 4
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Friday, February 17, 2012. Made a frog with plasticine then photographed a story sequence and wrote the story. Read LOTS of books (4WD mag, Asterix comics, Steven Parish wildlife stories, find a bug book, paper aircraft, and Far Out Brussel Sprout series). Revised titles, capitalization, full stops and topic sentences. Also did a lot of phonic work with Reading Eggs. Money - focused on adding 10c, 20c and 50c pieces, general equations - building his speed. Experimented with an electronic keyboard.
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The Apprentice: GASP!
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Sunday, February 26, 2012. Our weekly schedule is filling up; swimming, medieval group, art, science, excursions, festivals, library, kids club, soccer and music classes. And you know what? People who send their kids to school go to all this too! Isn't school supposed to provide all this for them? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Gin Gin Home Educators. Gin Gin Home Educators Calendar. Do We HAVE To? The Rest of Week 3 (3 days). Week 2 and a bit of 3. Travel template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Apprentice: What people think
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Sunday, February 26, 2012. Thanks to Defying Gravity. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Gin Gin Home Educators. Gin Gin Home Educators Calendar. Do We HAVE To? The Rest of Week 3 (3 days). Week 2 and a bit of 3. Travel template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Apprentice: THEY CAME
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Friday, April 13, 2012. As I mentioned in the previous post, "They Came" is an exhibition by HolyGreenCow currently on show at BRAG and it gave us the opportunity to play around with her technique so Kirk made this; A GIANT ALIEN KITTEN flying on a BIPLANE, TERRORISING a woman! Kirk thinks this is hilarious and so did I at his age. I spat my milk across the dinner table and rolled on the floor laughing when I saw Kitten Kong. On The Goodies. So what are we learning here? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Apprentice: Week 8 & part of 9
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Week 8 and part of 9. Subtraction stories, adding and subtracting vertically, chain adding, doubling, measurement with variable units, fractions, symmetry, time, date. This is also to help his pronunciation of /s/ which is still very poor. Tadpole observations - they are now starting to sprout legs, and now the weather is cooler we have been walking a lot and the kids pay very careful attention to the insects and fungi we find. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Apprentice: Do We HAVE To?
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Saturday, February 18, 2012. Do We HAVE To? 2 years ago Qld came into line with the rest of Australia and now provides 13 years of schooling and this year the national curriculum was introduced. BUT it's a hard and disappointing. So many of the kids are too young to manage it. Yes, some are loving it, but why make this Struggle Street? Monday, 27 February, 2012. I see Kindy kids going off to big school and they look soooo young! Wednesday, 29 February, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Apprentice: Week 5
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Friday, February 24, 2012. We had a very arty week. On Monday we went to BRAG (Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery) where 3 collections were showing: Cabinets of Curiosity. Which Kirk adored because the stuff he collected last year for his cabinet, with a little creative arrangement, could EASILY have gone into this exhibition. The second one impressed me, Growth. By Kath Walker. Great stories and beautiful artwork. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Gin Gin Home Educators. Gin Gin Home Educators Calendar.
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The Apprentice: Long Time No See
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Monday, January 23, 2012. Long Time No See. Apologies for the long holiday! Normally I just place here the highlights but instead I will try to post more often and give a run down of what Kirk does each day - this could prove tedious but so many people ask what homeschoolers actually DO all day. Of course they are also intensely interested about how we socialise. Our children which is a skill parents lost in the industrial era - over 200 years ago! So what's on this week? Monday, 05 March, 2012.
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The Apprentice: Week 9 - 11
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Thursday, April 05, 2012. Week 9 - 11. Sighit's always the way at the end of the month when I'm grant writing. I think you've basically got the picture of what we do each week (endless reading, writing and maths) so now I will just write up the highlights. And Kirk thought it was hilarious so I think we might have a go at the technique once the camera arrives. Samples soon! Underwater Scene using watercolour and collage techniques made at BRAG with teacher, Michelle. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Apprentice: Theatre of the Mind
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Thursday, March 08, 2012. Theatre of the Mind. On the long drive out to the South Burnett I looked in the rear vision mirror and noticed Kirk doing odd things, so I asked him what he was doing. He replied, "I'm growing my brain. I'm making up movies and Goon shows. In my head." WOW! Did THAT get him some praise! Mind you, torturing his sister is his next favourite activity while travelling in the car. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Gin Gin Home Educators. Week 8 and part of 9. Theatre of the Mind.
