Comments on: What a busy life we lead.

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:09:21 +0000

She’s 4, and yes, it is beyond her at the moment for self directed looking.

The games are OK though, and we looked up a bit on Italy, as going there. However, its quite nice for us to flip through using the sticker book section, as she quite likes stickers IRL and so we see some animals etc – it was bears last time, and it takes you back to the map and forwards. I don’t want to sell this as Education with a capital, but it is education, as she is getting used to usng the IT medium to find things, how information can be accessed, as well as remembering what are fairly useless facts on their own, but what lights her little spark on the day.

At the moment, really our education is that of life, and trying to gradually incorporate the skillls that will help her self directed learning in the future – sne phonics/reading, literature, maths, writing, painting/art and then access knowledge, rather than on a ‘learning topic’ basis.

Long answer, but I think that answers your background q of why are we using something so over her head!!!!

Do blog! then we can all read, enjoy and get some ideas

By: james

james — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:48:10 +0000

Hi… just a quicky – how old is your SB? My son (5 and a half) has just got the DK World Explorer software, but i think it’s a little beyond him at the mo (save for the treasure hunt and the airport games)

Great blog, by the way – I *must* get one set up for our HE..

Cheers

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:06:22 +0000

Not sure when we will move yet, ‘Mid-April’ has been mooted as a possible time, but we await exchange of contracts

By: Karen O

Karen O — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:42:52 +0000

You’ve warn me out. I struggle to cope with more than one event a day – lol. When are you moving? Can’t wait to see the beans again.
Karen xx

By: heather

heather — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:01:06 +0000

and we have eco self-build hankerings but it’s very much on the back burner. Sim’s folks have an ‘annex’ which is very beautiful and has geothermal underfloor heating- I really recommend it, it’s a very ambient sort of heat and lots of hot water.

By: heather

heather — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:58:16 +0000

And don’t forget that those early learning goals apply to yr R as well. I was quite surprised when Pip started school to find lots of kids can’t count to five (Titch can) and have had no exposure to reading and this is fine. So counting, reading children at four are leaping ahead.