!schooling 0000C18c - C22n | Mar 4-9

• home education

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now]

Bit of a short week this week due to Labour Day public holiday, and also (or perhaps because of that) a little bit disorganised. We did the zoo on the weekend, spent Monday cleaning the house which was rather festy. We didn’t get around to doing maths bookwork but did some Minecraft related spatial stuff. 8yo’s writing is getting neater and he is growing in confidence writing lowercase. We’re getting less freakouts about inability to form letters and other such things. He’s been having nightmares again so I’ve suggested he turn them into stories. He’s not so sure about writing horror but he has started thinking about stories he might like to write, including a self-insert Pokemon fanfic. I’m hoping to develop him out of the Mary Sue stage while he’s still young, he seems to be starting to grasp the concept of balancing characters.

We started Scitech science classes today, our crew made up about half the class. They worked on benches on the ground as the proper benches were a bit too tall and looked quite adorable decked out in their lab coats. I was roaming around the rest of Scitech with 4yo and got told I could have brought him in as there were some younger siblings in there watching but unlike 4yo those younger siblings just watched, 4yo has to be into absolutely everything (I actually managed to lose him twice at Scitech and the place was completely devoid of non-staff at that time of morning). It did mean I got to spend a bit of time with him and play on the displays with him which doesn’t happen much.

The big two had a great time learning about acids and bases and chemical reactions in a real lab, and one of 8yo’s besties (whom he had partnered up with) probably unintentionally gave 8yo a quick lesson in being methodical when he carefully mixed together all combinations of acid and base to see what would happen (apparently nothing happened though the colour changed slightly for a couple of the things they were testing the pH of). They were given a measuring cup and an instruction sheet for making volcanoes afterward and asked to do it when we got home. I was too tired when we got home (had to lug the 4yo from the train station) but the big two were still in a sciencey mood so 6yo found Backyard Science on ABC3 and they chilled out a bit.

Both big kids trained for a decent amount of kung fu, interspersed with bouts of playing (some of which involved building a large wall out of brick off-cuts a there is construction work going on near where they usually play, I made them break it down again as they’d built the wall on a wall and I was worried about it falling on someone). They worked hard in the class but complained afterwards that it was kind of boring not like the lessons we’d done on the other training night. We failed at making the other training night because I had a micronap in front of my computer and figured driving in that condition was probably not the best idea.

On Friday we made gods eyes out of sticks and utilising all two different coloured wool balls we had. The kids hung them over their beds to scare away nightmares.

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