Home Learning

At first glance and during a parent meeting at Sporty's school, I thought, 'what a great idea'. Out goes Homework in comes Home Learning. Look, no matter how you reword it, it is still making Sporty run for the hills at the sight of the home learning book being waved in the air, enthusiastically by her loving and caring mother (that's me!). It's been fun, but this week it isn't.

And I'll tell you why.

They have to retell a story using methods not used in class. ie, write a newspaper article, or perhaps make masks and costumes...or get this - illustrate it using powerpoint, yes indeed. POWERPOINT. Sporty is coming on 7 and thinks most things can be answered by that mystical god called google, but powerpoint! I was trying to keep upbeat and be positive and ideas were flowing out.

The hardest part was trying to make her decide on a story. I wanted to do 'Pride and Prejudice' but DH was refusing to jump in the bath full of water wearing only a white shirt and riding boots with me camera ready. So we triumphantly finally decided on 'The Gingerbread Man' (which we made out of play dough), found our cast members, 2 'little people' figures, a pig, a cow and Simba the lion to play the fox (Barney was considered 'too babyish'). I'm exhausted, not sure how Spielberg does it. Think we didn't do a bad job all considering.

Note: The P&P link shows the youtube scene of Colin Firth diving in the lake as Mr Darcy.