Challenge 4: Activities 21-27
I think I missed a few days after Day 18 (Thursday) when I did three activities (18-20) and learned about the Edamame Threat. Day 19: I was home with a sick boy, so the thing I had booked to do that day didn’t happen. I had to reschedule. Day...
Book 23/24: Changeling
You’re probably sick of hearing me say, “I didn’t know much about [author of the book of the moment] until I read the book”, so I’ll simply say Mike Oldfield’s story was nothing like I’d expected. I remember when I was in Grade 7 one of the older kids...
Book 13/24: Mindset
I’ve skipped a few book posts because this one is important to me starting out my second #steppingonthecracks challenge next week. I had never heard of the growth mindset until recently. A few weeks ago, I saw it mentioned in three unrelated things I was reading, which made me want to find...
Book 7/24: One Magic Square
I’ve had this book, One Magic Square: Grow your own food on one square metre by Lolo Houbein, on my bookshelf for several years. I bought it because the concept of being able to grow food by starting small, in a one metre by one metre square, appealed to...
Week in review – 2-8 February 2015
Week Goals: 16,000 steps per day – achieved every day. Gold star for me! What we did: This week was almost back to normal. School went back on Wednesday, and you already know how I felt about that. Juniordwarf was with Slabs on Monday and I went to work....
And so another school year begins
Today Juniordwarf started Grade 3. I don’t know about anyone else who has kids, but these holidays seemed to fly by. Yet even though the holidays have zoomed past us, last year (when we were wishing his Grade 2 teacher all the best for her retirement) seems like a...
a tale of two chocolates
Juniordwarf has a lot of teddies. (The teddies are his vast collection of soft toys, ranging from my old panda through many different species including tigers, a frog and several actual teddies. This is as opposed to the animals, which are all his plastic animals.) Different ones have been...
P365 – Day 296 – find your passion
Go directly to the garden. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. I’m one of those people who never knew what they wanted to do after they finished school. I was the career guidance teacher’s number one nightmare, and my parents despaired that I was never going make...
P365 – Day 128 mothers day
I had a lovely day today, despite being a bit knocked about by a lingering cold that I thought had almost gone, but that made a triumphant return to my life this morning. Juniordwarf gave me a little stash of presents, which he helped me to open. (What that...
P365 – Day 76 cutting it
A while ago, when it became apparent that Juniordwarf was left-handed, I bought some left-handed scissors for him, but he was never interested in cutting anything. Even when he had the opportunity at play group, he never made any attempt to use scissors. Now that they are doing cutting...