Education & Schooling

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November 22, 2012

“I’m so worried mama.” “In two weeks ders something weird happening.” “But I’ve forgotten what it was.” “An after tomorrow and da tomorrow after tomorrow, der will only be one week.” Awwww Heidi sweetheart. Friday week they are having a special art day at school and it is just too much my for my girl. [...]

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Chapter Books

November 6, 2012

  The next big stage of reading, a new literary frontier for Heidi. The transition to chapter books just happened for Annie. She started off Prep reading those A Apple A Ant entry level readers and by the end of the year she was reading Harry Potter to herself. No big deal. Heidi is a [...]

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Meet Pink Dragon

October 29, 2012
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He goes most places with me these days and is a very friendly little Dragon. Pink Dragon belongs to Heidi, but I find he likes to live in my bag and has spent the last month travelling around with me. Turns out that life for Pink Dragon isn’t all about Product Shots and Cake, much [...]

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4MyEarth School Fundraiser

September 24, 2012
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I’ve spoken in the past about fundraising for school and my interest in making sustainable choices. We’ve been using 4MyEarth wraps and pockets for about 18 months now and they are brilliant, easy to use, easy to clean and looking as great now as they did they day we got them. So you can imagine [...]

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Annie’s Homework. I’m so Proud of Her

September 9, 2012

Many of you have seen this already when I shared it on Facebook, but for those that have not here you go… Some back story. Annie had not done her homework all week. It is due in Friday morning but she was out at Friendship Group on Thursday night and told me she would get [...]

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Rubbish Free Lunches

September 3, 2012
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We’ve been discussing Rubbish Free Lunches at school recently and I’ve had a few parents ask how they would make a rubbish free lunch. So thought I’d put together a few pictures of rubbish free lunches. More rubbish free lunch box ideas, here, here, here and here. We even use cloth lunch bags for the [...]

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End of term is hard

June 22, 2012
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End of term is hard, it is like walking up hill through cheesecake, except with less yummy deliciousness. The girls are exhausted, they have been for a couple of weeks now. My husband has been home on leave thank god. However our fun weekend away for my nieces wedding took its toll. We’ve had two [...]

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Things I Know – Family Games Day / Education Week Edition

May 25, 2012
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As part of the Education Week* celebrations at school I got to join the girls for some Family Games Day fun yesterday. I started off in Heidi’s classroom, there was 3D Snakes N Ladders, which almost went badly wrong as she got the big snake all the way to the bottom of the board. We [...]

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2012 Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge: books on iPad and Kindle from Prep – Grade 2 list

April 28, 2012

The note came home at the beginning of last term about the 2012 Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, we’ve participated for the last three years and the girls have always enjoyed discovering new books. This year our library shelves were sadly bare of books on the challenge list. I do believe word has gotten out about [...]

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The Game of Chance Fundraiser

November 1, 2011
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To celebrate Melbourne Cup Day I thought I’d write about Game of Chance fundraisers for schools and preschools.   First up the easy to organise “Guess how many X is in the jar” fundraiser – be it Easter Eggs at Easter or jelly beans or some other fun item Fill a jar with your item [...]

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