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24.01.2022 Wow... back to school time... Woo Hoo! Well, I thought I'd be happy...but now I find myself a tad lonely and a bit out of sorts? The house is eerily quiet. ... There have been no interruptions in my home office. No one has asked me for something to eat (for the hundredth time). No one has complained that there's nothing to eat (because they ate all the junk food and there's only healthy stuff left) Mess hasn't miraculously reappeared after I've cleaned it up? I'm missing the chats, even if they were brief and on the way to or from said fridge. I'm missing the annoyingly noisy squeak of the trampoline as one or the other of they boys "take a quick break" from their school work. I'm missing not having The Simpsons on in the background on TV all day - also for those numerous "quick breaks". I miss hearing them laugh as they muck around with their friends during their online classes. I'm missing sitting out in the patio, soaking up some winter sun, nattering with my two boys as we have a bite to eat for lunch (hmmm, does everything revolve around food in this house??!) I have to admit, "home schooling" wasn't as draining as I thought it would be, although I fully realise I'm lucky that my boys are a bit older. I don't know how I would have coped entertaining and/or schooling toddlers or early school age kids? Having said that - may I just point out that Grade 6 Maths is not for the faint-hearted either! I dunno, I guess it took a bit of time to get used to them being at home 24/7... so it may take a bit of time to get used the old routines again? How has it been for you all? Is Back To School a Godsend for you, or like me are there little pockets of "I'll Miss This A Bit" in your life? Please feel free to share your thoughts below! I thought it might be nice to hear about what some of us are experiencing? Hugs Fi xx
22.01.2022 Tell me I’m not the only one to get a giggle out of this!
11.01.2022 Oooooh... there are so many! It was the best part of taking the kids to see a kids movie... we got so many extra chuckles
07.01.2022 Yesterday, we were working on a story about a 9-year old boy being bullied at school for using a My Little Pony backpack. The school responded by telling the li...ttle boy to leave his bag at home... a move that seems to punish the little boy and not the bullies. Many people complained that schools often ignore these issues or simply don't know how to handle them... Among the comments, I came across the story of one teacher who struggled with how to teach kids about the harm caused by bullying. So she decided to use apples as visuals. If you have 3 minutes read this story and share with your teacher friends: --- I decided to stop by the store this morning and buy a couple apples. During our morning meeting (where we sit in a circle and do spiral lessons), I told my class we were going to try something different and I showed them my two apples and asked them to list the differences and similarities between the two apples. They were both exactly the same color and shapeone was a little brighter and bigger, but that was literally the only difference. I then held up the other apple that was only slightly discolored and smaller and I said, Gross. This apple looks disgusting! and dropped it on the ground. My kids all looked at me like I was INSANE! A couple laughed uncomfortably, but for the most part they thought I had lost my mind. I then picked it up and passed it to the student sitting beside me and said, isn’t this apple just stupid?! You should say something mean to it and do this! Again I modeled dropping it in front of me. Now pass it to the person next to you so they can say something mean to the apple, too! Long story short, my kids got very into saying mean and hurtful things to this apple and dropping it in front of them. I hate your skin. You’re an ugly color of red Your stem isn’t very long You’re probably full of worms on and on and on. So by the time this little apple made it back to me everyone had had a chance to really rip this little guy apart. I seriously started feeling sympathetic towards an inanimate object but moving on I then held both of the apples up for my kids to look at and asked them to now list the similarities and differences of the apples again It came back the same There really was no difference. Even after they had repeatedly dropped this apple you couldn’t really tell that it had any damage. I then asked my students who wanted a piece of the apple of course FOOOOOOOD. and ALL my students raised their hands because they wanted some. I took out a cutting board, knife and proceeded to cut the shiny apple open. It was perfect. And all my kids ooooohhh and ahhhh’ed Then I cut open the second one and when I opened it, it was covered in mushy brown spots and bruised all inside from where we dropped it. When I held it up my kids were like, EWWWWW. I don’t want to eat THAT apple! Yuck! That looks disgusting That’s when I just looked at them and said, But didn’t we all contribute to the apple looking this way?! We did this why shouldn’t we eat it? They all just kind of stopped and got really quiet and I was like, See guys this is what we do to other people when we say mean and hurtful things. When we gossip or call someone ugly or fat or tell them they aren’t good enough or that they can’t be friends with you we are just dropping them and causing ONE MORE bruise a bruise that while we can’t see on the outside is VERY REAL and very destructive inside of them! It doesn’t just go away, the bruises just keep getting worse and deeper THIS! I said as I held up the bruised apple, is what we do to each other. We have to stop dropping each other. I’ve never seen my kids get something so fast before. It was so real to them people cried and laughed and it was very emotional but absolutely amazing and they got to then journal about everything and some of the responses I got well, I sobbed all the way through lunch. I had so many kids come up and hug me later and tell me that they were so happy that a teacher got it. :)
07.01.2022 Yep... this about sums it up in my household! How’s your ship going?
04.01.2022 This is taking home arts and crafts to a new level...!
