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Primary Proms | Lighting a Fire
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats. Reading around the net →. October 16, 2013. Edward practising to be a commuter, reading the Metro! The music itself was an eclectic mix of pop choir, big band, classical, brass band and a wonderful percussion group. There was lots of audience participation, which made it fun for the children, although it was rather loud at times (imagine several thousand schoolchildren shouting and screaming! I wish we’d know...
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dhahabu | Lighting a Fire
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats. Reading around the net. October 18, 2013. I’ve been doing a lot of reading recently and have really appreciated some of the posts by Julie Brennan, the founder of the Living Math website. She encapsulates some of what I’m thinking at the moment and also seems to … Continue reading →. October 16, 2013. October 3, 2013. There has been lots of learning in the past few days – about myself and the children! Sometimes I ...
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A Sea Change? | Lighting a Fire
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats. Our week: 22nd – 28th September. Day 1 →. September 29, 2013. Sometimes I think that the record of our home education journey will show a rather indecisive, fumbling attempt to give our children an education :-S I started this academic year planning to take a more serious approach to formal academics. Well, four weeks in and this week, Andrew and I have come to the decision that a sea change may be in order. Addres...
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Our week: 22nd – 28th September | Lighting a Fire
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats. Our week 15-21 September. Our week: 22nd – 28th September. September 29, 2013. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Our week 15-21 September. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Day in the Life.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats. Newer posts →. Our week: 8-14 September. September 15, 2013. Our outside activities resumed this week. Edward has been working steadily through Jolly Grammar 2, one page per day. One of the things I’ve been reflecting on over the summer is that the ‘fun stuff’ so easily gets squeezed out of the day by the more pressing subjects such as maths and reading. This year I want that to change! September 7, 2013. However, ...
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Our week 15-21 September | Lighting a Fire
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats. Our week: 8-14 September. Our week: 22nd – 28th September →. Our week 15-21 September. September 22, 2013. We read ’10 Black Dots’ this week. This is a simple book, aimed more at Isaac and Lydia than Edward but we all enjoyed the activity together. We read the book then attempted to recreate our own with some dot stickers (red and blue, not black! This entry was posted in Weekly round-up. Our week: 8-14 September.
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Positives and Negatives | Lighting a Fire
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats. Primary Proms →. October 3, 2013. There has been lots of learning in the past few days – about myself and the children! First for what we’ve done. On Tuesday,. Later on, Isaac asked for the recycling box and he and Lydia. This entry was posted in Musings. Primary Proms →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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Reading around the net | Lighting a Fire
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats. Reading around the net. October 18, 2013. 8220;I wanted to share something about the idea of doing math. When my kids were in early elementary, I followed the Charlotte Mason idea of not pushing any more than 15. Minutes of *structured* math time. Although if we were on a roll, we’d keep on going. Part of the reason I could be very comfortable with that was the realization that. Often even more efficient. Of learni...
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Day 1 | Lighting a Fire
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats. Positives and Negatives →. September 30, 2013. Day 1 of ‘the great experiment’ and we’ve survived😉 Looking back on the day this evening, there has been much to encourage. As I thought, Isaac is ideal material for this sort of approach: he literally buzzes with ideas all day long! This entry was posted in The Great Experiment! Positives and Negatives →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Around th...