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Der Herbst ist da
Every Friday in the kindi they do group singing with all four classes. J loves singing. She has been singing the first line of this autumn childrens song for the past week or two, but yesterday she...
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Education
Anyone wonder why I am even in the slightest bit concerned about my child entering the education system? This video sums it up, really
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Getting involved
There are quite a few opportunities coming up to get involved in the kindergarten in the next short time. The week before last I could go in the afternoon to make a lantern for the St Martin parade,...
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Cake!!!!
Tonight is the St Martins parade from the kindergarten, and as I mentioned before, I have volunteered to make a cake for the occasion. I don’t really have many excuses to make cakes, except for my...
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Games We Play
Games are rituals, they are ways to play in a structured manner, with goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. Here is the most interesting description of what a game is that I found, this is from...
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Pintester – my own test
This week I came across a blog called Pintester. This woman takes various posts from Pinterest and tries them out in real life, with varying levels of success. Unsurprisingly, the failures make the...
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Heres a lunch
I have been using lots of cucumber stars in the lunches. But the cucumbers in the supermarket have been pretty disgusting in the last while so I am giving it a rest until they are actually back in...
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Ballet
I come from a performing family, we are all musicians in some form or another. I started ballet when I was four, and I have vivid memories of being a tiny mouse in the nutcracker suite, and a robot in...
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Easter and children
It’s Good Friday. The one Christian festival that is not dictated by date, it is decided by the cycle of the moon, in line with the more ancient Spring equinox pagan tradition. Every symbolized item...
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Translation Mutation
It is really fascinating raising a bilingual child. Seeing the two languages develop at different paces, one overtakes the other, then the first catches up again. There is no straight line to be...
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The collection connection
I read a few different blogs and I am subscribed to a parenting newsletter. I read the occasional book or magazine, and generally try and absorb information about raising children in a fairly random...
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Education
Anyone wonder why I am even in the slightest bit concerned about my child entering the education system? This video sums it up, really
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Learning about learning
Oh gosh! Its been so long since I posted. And pretty much the entire reason I haven’t been doing so is because I have been working 30 hours a week in a kindergarten for the past 6 months. My entire...
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