For the past three weeks in Design & Technology club, the children’s challenge has been to design and make a scooter. Of course, Dylan decided he wanted to make one that was also a stringed instrument. Apparently it took most of the first session to explain it to the teacher, and convince her that it WOULD fulfil the brief and be a scooter.
It actually looks a bit like a Segway…
Musical transport
June 27, 2014
R.I.P. Primary Whiteboard
July 30, 2013
Speed of delivery
June 20, 2013
[On the school Fronter system, when a pop-up asks whether we want to allow an .exe file to run]
Mum: Do we want a program to run?
Boy: No! Press cancel! When you get a message like that, you HAVE to say ‘no’. Otherwise it will run – you know like the Coach tells us to run in PE?
Mum: Yes?
Boy: Well it will run like that – and that’s bad. DON’T let it run.
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Be active!
June 19, 2013
BE ACTIVE!
All things in moderation…
(It’s a shame Vine video can’t be embedded within a blog post)
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Junior games
March 7, 2013
Angry Birds – Feb 2013
D: Today I have been playing on Angry Birds. I played it on M’s phone!
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Crossing language barriers
November 12, 2012
D: I wish I was in the sky – in space.
Me: Why?
D: I would LOVE to see the spacemans. How do you get back into Earth when you’re in space?
Do you have to stay there if you go into space?
Me: No because you’d go in a rocket – you’d just turn the rocket around and go back to Earth.
D: How can the rocket get back down if the world is just like a big ball and REALLY, REALLY hard and it can’t get through?
Me: What do you mean – it doesn’t need to go through the Earth – just land on it.
D: No, I MEAN… You know how the Earth is hard?
Me: Yes.
D: Well how can the rocket go back into a country if the Earth is a big ball and SO hard?
Me: Do you mean if the rocket is one side of the Earth in space and the country it’s going back to is on the other side? It would just go AROUND – like a bird. It doesn’t need to go through.
D: Really, really close mum, good try. That’s not what I mean!
Me: How about you show me what you mean on your planets poster when we go upstairs?
D: No, I’ll draw you a picture to show you what I mean…
Explanation of meaning – Nov 2012
D: That’s the Earth and they’re all stars around it. That’s the rocket [bottom], and it’s going back down to Earth. How can it go through when the Earth is really hard?
Me: Ahh! Yes, sorry – the rocket must turn around again just before it reaches the Earth and go in backwards, so it lands on its flat bit! Is that what you mean, because there’s a pointy bit on the top of the rocket?
D: Yes!
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Wild technology
October 21, 2012
Me: We’ve got to go to the Post Office to pick up a parcel.
D: Is it for me?
Me: No, I think it’ll be for me.
D: How do you know?
Me: Because I ordered some printer cartridges a couple of days ago and they said that they would be delivered in a couple of days.
D: Printer party juice?
Me: Printer CARTRIDGES – but I think ‘printer party juice’ sounds much better – like the printer has a party all over the paper!
D: I wish it was for me.
Do you copy? Over.
July 29, 2012
The following exchange was in separate rooms via Walkie Talkies:
D: What have you been doing today? Over.
Me: I’ve been working on the computer. Over.
D: What have you been DOING on the computer? Over.
Me: I’ve been writing lots of words. Over.
D: Words about what? Over.
Me: Words about videos and exploring. Over.
D: What sort of words about videos and exploring – like ‘dog’ or ‘cat’? Over.