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Corf – the Twits retelling

Susan — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:28:14 +0000

At Corfe we did a retelling of Roald Dhal’s The Twits.

The idea is that you learn the gist of a chapter and retell that part so we get the whole story told by a variety of different people. This year our story tellers aged from about 4 up to – well I’m 39 and there were definitely some older than me!

The style of the story telling varied from the expressive to the dead pan and from the completely learned to those who needed the book to read from.

This was our youngest story teller – she was brilliant.

Here are some of our other young story tellers.

And some slightly older ones.

And some attentive listeners

And a few of the more expressive story tellers.

And actually….

Susan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:51:00 +0000

… we know our children’s abilities and how they improve why should we be constantly having to prove that they have progressed.

Take Rebekah for an example. last week at camp (there will definitely be Corfe camp pictures and blogging soon) Rebekah went Kayaking. She hadn’t done it since last year and this year she went out about 4 times. She was better this year than last year, but we haven’t measured by how much. We didn’t take a baseline assessment last year so we could test how much she has improved this year. we also didn’t have a programme for her to follow to make sure she improves in the correct way in the correct time for her age. But she got better, she built on last year’s experiences and was more comfortable doing it, and could go for longer and was much happier. And her face shone when she had done it and she loved it. But I guess I should really have done all that formal assessment because obviously that would have improved everything for her.

The pig don’t get fatter the more you weigh it.

Little camp

becca — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:29:00 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I went to my homeducation camp!!
It rained on us quite a lot but we still managed to go swimming in outdoor pool (brr)

Piccy of Jonathan cautiously edging into the very cold outdoor pool
lots of us made funky hair scrunchies to entertain us whilst it was raining!!
This is a pic of mine