Stretchy Princess

Sleep Sweet

Thursday, August 11, 2011 Labels: sleep

Some good info about sleep: Silent Nights It's written for parents of young children but has some great info about sleeping for all ages.

Fake it!

Wednesday, July 6, 2011 Labels: Spoonie, Spoonie helpers

I first fell in love with Zoe Foster over at Mamamia. I fell in love with her b/f Hamish Blake listening Hamish and Andy (sadly now only on Fridays *sniff*). Anyway, Zoe's a makeup guru & has a new book out which I am ashamed to say I haven't read yet. But I have reserved it at the library & I shall be the library's copies' first reader! I think it'll be a keeper though, and I'll be buying my own soon. But for now I have to content myself with watching videos, like the one here.

Wide - awake eyes
Brilliant for the spoonie I feel! How to look better than you feel!

I dragged my younger sister all around the shops on Monday looking for under eye concealer. With no success I'm afraid. I fell in love with one that was $75, and I'm afraid I'm not willing to spend that. :o( (I could, after all, buy two of ZOE'S BOOK for that!)

Right, now I'm off to ebay cosmetics...

~Stretchy P. xxx

Baking Soda

Labels: green

Recently I've switched most of my cleaning products over to good old baking soda & vinegar. Here's a great post on some more of the wonders of baking soda: 7 surprising uses for baking soda

While I haven't switched to using it as shampoo I might try it as toothpaste...

Teaching ABCs & 123s

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Labels: kids, teaching

While there’s consensus at an academic level kindergarten teachers and those who work with young children can feel pressure from parents and others to ‘teach’ reading and writing. Some feel that rote counting and ABCs activites are essential for young children.

Here’s a fantastic blog post by an early years teacher in America. I just need to play with them.

(note, for the Aussies reading: when he refers to Kindergarten, that’s our Prep, reception or first year of school)

Primary Teacher Blogs

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Labels: blogs, teaching

I've found a lot of fantastic blogs about early learning activities recently. (See 'Children's stuff blogs' in sidebar). But this semester I'm doing teaching rounds in a Yr 1/2 classroom. So I've been looking for some Australian blogs written by teachers in early primary. I haven't found many, but here's a couple.

Nina's Arena

Excuse me, Mrs C

Some class blogs:

A Prep class in Sydney: Clever Cookies

A great yr 2 team teaching classroom blog: (best class blog I've found)
        Grade 1/2 at the same school
        A grade 2
        And another grade 2

A grade 3 class in WA

Another Grade 3

Here's a 5/6 classroom: Allstars

And another 5/6: Adventures with Miss B

A grade 5: Mr Austin's blog

Another grade 5: The Skinny

Here's a blog about a school's gardens & sustainability work

In terms of resources there are:

The rather hideously coloured K-3 Teacher Resources

Know any other blogs written by teachers, classes or have lots of lesson plan ideas??

Attention Gruen: best ad of the year?

Friday, March 11, 2011 Labels: fun, need-a-laugh

I absolutely love the ABC's Gruen Transfer. Todd Sampson & his Tshirts are always a highlight. But I think this year's best ad has to go to Jennifer Aniston's Sex Tape.