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help me let dd wallow in her geekiness

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 13:03

DD wants to put togther a little booklet of things to support what she is doing in science (year 1). She is doing the unit 1a about ourselves. I usually just find a few online worksheets that I can print off and we do togther as well as doing some stuff on powerpoint with her but I can't find anything. We are going to the library later but can anyone find any resources.

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popsycal · 22/10/2007 13:04

can you get espresso through your LEA website?

ds1 is doing ourselves in year 1 too......

crickweb may have something

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 13:06

I will have a look.

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 13:07

do you mean the LEA portal?

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popsycal · 22/10/2007 13:07

crickweb science

popsycal · 22/10/2007 13:08

yes - we can get it htrough ours but I use my work username and password.....

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 13:09

no we just have links to bbc

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 13:09

Yes I teach in the LEA so I can get on

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ahundredtimes · 22/10/2007 13:10

Oh dear isn't there something more fun and funny that LEA things. I know you're a teacher and everything, but why can't she do a drawning about the colours of eyes in her family, or
get a good book which shows all the bits of a body, and get her to draw one and stick on ORGANS. Or something.

Don't even know what a powerpoint presentation is . . . .

I, obviously, have no idea what unit 1a is or what 'About Ourselves' really means. . . .

But it all sounds a bit boring somehow.

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 13:10

she loves that thanks

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 13:14

In her words it is wicked!

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 13:19

ahundredtimes we have done some of those things, we are part way through making a paper mache human body and she has done has been playing with the digital camera. We are also going to the Eureka and the science museum over the holidays.

We have been looking at books but she wants to put something togther to give her new teacher and she likes looking for pictures and using them to make little powerpoints. Am I to tell her that because some woman she has never met thinks that because what she wants to do is boring she has to stop.

Children are all different and all like doing different things and being a parent nevermind a "teacher and evrything" has taught me to respect their choices and not take the piss.

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 13:21

I only know what unit she is doing becaue I help her with her homework and took time to look on the QCA website so I knew what she was doing and we could support her, again nothing to do with being a "teacher and everything" but more to do with an interested parents who knows what interests my daughter.

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popsycal · 22/10/2007 13:28

TWINSET - crickweb is good for older children too....lots of good teacher resources for work aswell

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 13:30

I may have a look if they have anything for my teaching. DD loves any interactive whitebaord stuff she is always playing with mine at work.

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IgglePiggleWoo · 22/10/2007 13:33

Oh thanks for that link to crickweb - I had no idea such sites existed ! My dd (Y1) will also love it !

Am feeling like bad mummy now as I mainly go on ebay !

Note to self - must do better !

Thank you !!

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 13:35

crickweb is only primary whereas I teach secondary but there are some bits that I could use. thanks

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ahundredtimes · 22/10/2007 13:43

Crikey - you got really wound up didn't you? Not sure why.

I'm delighted your dd is enjoying what she's doing.

I wasn't taking the piss, it was all this talk of unit 1as and powerpoint presentations that made me think it sounded yawnful, and more to do with your involvement in her interests than her own interest IFYSWIM.

You sound terribly earnest about this booklet.

ahundredtimes · 22/10/2007 13:50

She can read, she can use a computer. Let her do what she wants, what's it to do with you?

Though I do see your support is nice. Sorry. I suppose everyone does things differently.

Two out of three of mine are seriously geeky, and do all sorts of things. I just let them get on with it I suppose without getting involved so much, the results tend to be more imaginative and interesting without me. More interesting but possibly less 'educational'. DS2 did a very funny Globe theatre playlist yesterday!

Anyway, I annoyed you so I apologise. I'm sure the booklet/ powerpoint presentation will be a wonderful.

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 14:13

I got wound up because I thought that you were very rude and patronising, a lack of manners is one fo the few things that does manage to wind me up. I work in a culture where children are bullied or picked on for being studiuos and it amazes me that an adult and a parent would do the same. The school I teach in is mainly made up of families who show zero interest in their children's education so perhaps I do swing the other way too far but I think that is understandable and to be commended in fact rather taking the piss.

I am helping dd because she wanted me to.

Firstly she is six so although her reading is good she needs support. She also likes looking on the internet for pictures which I can't let her do on her own, the mind boggles at what would come up if she typed various body parts into google images

She has a bit if a worksheet obsession, she also loved those workbooks which I used to avoid like the plague because I was worried people like you would think I was forcing my over precious daughter to become as dull as me. I have learnt though to let dd to do what she wants. She is just one of those children who likes to feel she is learning something. Some of it may come from watching me put togther activities for my classes so she likes me to find things for her to do, I tend to print off a few things from the internet and then she sits and does them while I do my marking. I also try to ensure that we do more fun activities together as her workseet obsession is a little odd.

She also loves using her pc so every now and again we choose a topic and we read about it at home or in the library and she looks for pictures on the internet. We copy and paste it into a powerpoint slide and she types up what she found out. She takes it into school and they make a fuss of her which makes her happy.

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 14:14

lol at the fcat I can't spell studious!

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twinsetandpearls · 22/10/2007 14:17

"what's it to do with you?"

She is my daughter and she has asked me can we do some science together to give in next week - that is what it is to do with me.

She can also open the fridge, use the tin opener, use the toaster, spread butter and stir beans in a pan, shall I let her live on beans on toast made by herself as she can velarly cope in her own with no adult intervention.

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ahundredtimes · 22/10/2007 14:24

Excellent. Good. Sorry. My mistake. Very rude, apologies.

alycat · 22/10/2007 14:40

Well this thread has shamed me into realising I do very little to support my DD's education at home - I wouldn't know how! My DD gets little homework and regularly does not tell me what they are up to in class.

Her half term project last Autumn (Yr 2)was to make some Egyptian jewelry, so we went to The British Museum, looked on the internet and got a book from the library. Before spending many glorious hours coated in gold paint and glue!

Perhaps (to help the less 'hands on' of us) you could all list your fave educational support sites?

I put my hands up to not doing enough with my DD, it is one of the things that keeps me awake at night. I have a DS with severe SN who has to have hours of therapy daily and a DH who works abroad mostly, so it just seems there are not enough hours in the day.

TIA

ahundredtimes · 22/10/2007 14:40

Not sure how saying why don't you let your daughter do what interests her about this rather than going to educational authority websites- given how much you are already supporting her interests - constitutes bullying???

I know I should leave it alone. Sighs. But now I'm wondering why are so touchy and defensive about 5/6 y-o's half-term science project.

Anyway, what does it matter. You don't have to justify yourself to me do you? Forget it. I suppose what I was trying to say, and clearly failing at, was IMO and IME a good way to let dcs wallow in their geekiness is to let them follow her own nose and answer the question 'what do you think is most interesting about yourself? Or your body?' sort of thing. And leave them to it, coming in at important moments. Which you probably already have done.

I can't help thinking we're having a fight about nothing. I wasn't meaning to be rude - I do see I might sound patronisng - but was actually trying to answer your question, but from a different angle. A 6 y-o can't be studious can they? They are curious, which is quite different.

popsycal · 22/10/2007 15:04

Just to add - the websites I suggested (although I used the phrase LEA) are FUN! Games etc.......