Archive for January, 2009
Four Seasons Game.. I like the sound of this one.
January 8th, 2009 | 
Author: Choose one child (or an adult) as a leader, to give directions and keep score. Divide the rest of the class or group into teams for each of the four seasons and sit them in a ring, in seasonal order (ie spring, summer, autumn, winter).
The leader starts by saying, “I am Spring. I am leaving.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Robotic Children. taken from the ecologist
Our conveyor-belt education system is geared towards the production of clones and parrots, not imaginative, creative and curious human beings. Is it any wonder our children are stressed and unhappy? Nick Nettles reports
http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1946 Try not to gulp when you read the next sentence.
According to lobby group Leave Them Kids Alone, upwards of 3,500 UK schools are fingerprinting their students, with biometric equipment bought from two Department for Children, Schools and Families-approved suppliers.
Could there be a more frightening motif for our brave new world of order and control? Read the rest of this entry »
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Yahoo is now tracking us down.
Yahoo! takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
The federal government and technology industry have developed practical tips to help you guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer and protect your personal information.
How Yahoo! Uses Your Personal Information Read the rest of this entry »
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Police Hack your computer, whilst the ballifs enter your home :d
The UK government has agreed to work with the European Parliament on plans to extend police powers to conduct remote searches of computers without a warrant.
The European Union Council of Ministers approved a plan in November 2008 to grant law-enforcement authorities in member states the power to perform remote searches of suspects’ computers, as well as to perform ‘cyber patrols’ of the internet and increase data sharing between European police forces. The plan, to be implemented within the next five years, raises the possibility of cross-border co-operation on cyber investigations. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Forum
I have decided to have a go at launching a forum on FTH. Its essentially for anyone who knows us.
There is a general chat forum
One section for fellow OU students and there is one section which is for current home educators only.
Please ask to join this, if you are currently home schooling. Otherwise you wont have access to it!
Vicki xx
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Its official.. its COLD
Yep it snowed today.
Anyway, here is a picture to help realise exactly HOW cold it is today, but also how beautiful it is.
Asha spent some time on the field, and some time building snow men and throwing snow balls at daddy. He might put a photo up 
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Moths, use colour to see flowers at night.
A NOCTURNAL moth has become the first animal known to see colours in the dead of night. They use this visual talent to find yellow, nectar-packed flowers in the dark, but the finding reported in New Scientist suggests that other species also use colour vision at night.
Nocturnal moths were thought to find flowers by looking for bright petals against a darker, leafy background. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tights Fall Down…..
Yep that is right, stalactites fall down.. and stalagmites crawl up.
When I was in senior school I remeber weeks of our geography lessons being spent discussing these things, and it was sooo boring! Last week the kids at CLAS had great fun playing with them, and asking questions and taking photographs of them.
I hope to take Asha tomorrow to the river to look at ice a bit more, but in the mean time, some information for you on ICE, Stalactites and Stalagmites.
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Now you KNOW the effects of illegal drugs cost our
governement more than anything else, and that everyone who takes them should be locked up for ever.. Well..
Have you ever seen a drug rest tent being set up by the ambulance services? No.. Well they have.. the only difference is its LEGAL drugs.! Read the rest of this entry »
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