May 2008

Monthly Review for April/May

May 31, 2008

At the start of May I changed to my own server and it took me a while to sort out some problems and settle in. As such the Monthly Review for April did not appear. This therefore is a combined review of April and May and some goals I am setting myself for June. REVIEW [...]

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It Is Really Not That Bad

May 31, 2008

I would like to apologise if (and I am pretty sure you have) had trouble accessing my site. Each night this week from about 8pm Australian Eastern time, my site has become inaccessible. Firstly my hosting company said it was due to faulty hardware which they replaced. Then they needed to replace the hardware they [...]

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WW – I Like It And I Don’t Care What You Think

May 28, 2008

Background: WW stands for Wordless Wednesday and is where you post without words and simply use a photo. I realise that I am using words here, but thought as this was my first time doing a WW post I would fill you in on what it is about, just in case you didn’t know. To [...]

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10 Steps To Get Children Involved In Housework

May 27, 2008

My children have their set jobs which they are responsible for on a daily basis. There are times also when I want them to give me a hand with some ad hoc housework that needs to be done. Naturally this request is not always met with glee and joy, but there are a few things [...]

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Planning For Life Learning

May 23, 2008

Before I had kids, I didn’t have that many views on what I would be like as a parent. One of the few things that I did have a view on was that I wanted to instill into my children an understanding of the broader world around them and to be passionate about injustice. I [...]

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Planning Our Trips To The Library

May 22, 2008

In Victoria (and many other states in Australia) the Premier of our State holds a Reading Challenge each year. The aim of the challenge is “to promote a love of reading. It is not a competition, but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.” Students in Prep [...]

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Winner Of ickle kids Activity Pack Is……

May 21, 2008

Thank you to everyone who entered the ickle kids Activity Pack Give Away.

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10 Online Learning Games For Preschoolers

May 20, 2008

As I set out in my post about TV we limit the time our children have watching TV and we also deal with time on the computer in the same way. I am happy to sit with my preschooler and teach her how to navigate the screens etc so that she can play some online [...]

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Do You Iron?

May 17, 2008

We do iron our clothes in our house. I am lucky that my husband will iron and is quite good at it. I do though have friends who don’t iron any clothes at all. They always look good and not crumpled, but I can’t seem to move out of the mindset that I must iron [...]