fling the teacher

This is just fabulous – Fling the Teacher – you choose your history subject, dress up your teacher and then have to answer 15 questions correctly for the teacher to be flung by trebuchet. Questions definitely seem on the hard side but Daniel did it with the Tribes of Mesoamerica. He was a bit critical of some of the questions and answers as they weren’t completely factually correct, so there you are, he did know more than the teacher!

Constructed the carrot light (similar set here) this afternoon and also did an experiment where you can taste electricity – weird, it’s sour. Had some fun at the sweetly entitled Froguts.com – free demos of squid and owl pellet were quite good. Daniel knew all about the squid already and kept the rest of us right

Very hard frost overnight leading to a beautiful sunny day. Cleaned and dried the trampoline and weve all had lots of sunshine, fresh air and exercise out there Did some more orthodox bits – Daniel did another 2XL tutorial and Charlotte magical maths. Then Charlotte remembered her Zoo Vet practical maths book and did a page on there about primate weights. I do notice how her general cognition has developed – much better understanding of how to work things out since we last did these books. She has now completed her North American animals and is working on the South American ones. They staple well to their maps and are going up on the kitchen wall as they get completed. Daniel wrote a report about a scorpion – his idea.

A realisation has hit me – were approaching a year of home ed! The kids last day of school was March 16th last year…wow… remember it well. I went and bought 3 Bart Simpson Easter eggs for the children when they came out of school that day (Michaela was there too). A very emotive time that was – it had been gradually dawning on me that the Waldorf was not quite all it should be. What with certain teachers shouting aggressively at children, bullying (if the perpetrator was from an old Waldorf family it seemed to be ignored – Charlotte had a very unpleasant time with one boy latterly) and the recent revelation of one teacher’s appalling attitude to special needs, we had all had enough. In saying all that it was still head and shoulders above what’s on offer from the state and a very interesting experience for us all – a glance into another world really. All the art and craft and the maths teaching methods were great – the teachers were all very committed to the children. It certainly couldn’t be ‘just a job’ to them as they were paid very poorly. Reminiscing over – off for a jump on the trampoline, which has been a fantastic stress-buster for all of us over the school-trauma times

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