We are working on building up the 9 year old’s narrative writing at the moment. One of the narrative writing activities we do is to use prompts (like the image above, which if you cannot see in your email click here) and have her creative a narrative around the pictures. On the page you can [...]

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It was a late activity for us today as part of the 21 Challenge, fitted in after netball and futsal games. It also has a different angle. Tonight it was my daughter teaching me how to make something – a chatterbox. I used to make these as a child, but couldn’t remember where to start [...]

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Today I was rostered on as one of the parent helpers for the grade 1/2 Project Based Investigation session. The sessions have been run twice a week through out this term and they allow the kids to explore in a more hands on, in depth way some of the concepts and theory they are learning [...]

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Our kids have set tasks around the house they need to do in the morning and in the evening. I have posted our morning tasks here and will soon post what the kids do in the evening. Just recently we did rotate the evening tasks, so one of the jobs master 7 has to do [...]

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Today I was lucky enough to go on a school excursion with our grade 6 son’s class to the State Library of Victoria. And I say lucky as this excursion had so many volunteers, not all parents were selected! (I had volunteered for the Polly Woodside excursion last Friday too, but missed out on that [...]

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I am very keen on having kids do activities for themselves, which  they are capable of. While it can often seem easier and quicker to do the activity yourself, teaching the kids life skills which are age appropriate for them, is one of the best things I can do for them and me. Better for [...]

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