by Dancing Wombat | Nov 7, 2016 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog, Coping Strategies
What’s not to love about love stories? Especially for teenagers? Well, let’s think – how should we love them? I’ve been thinking about Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The classic love story. Standard Year 9 English fare. Cue embarrassed titters from...
by Dancing Wombat | Nov 3, 2016 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog
I looove words. My Wombats roll their eyes when I get excited over discovering the etymology of a particular word. I call them “boxer shorts” moments. That refers to the time when I realised why boxer shorts were so called. (I don’t follow boxing – that’s probably why...
by Dancing Wombat | Jun 16, 2016 | Blog, Learning Through Performance
“Do you like my butterfly?” I asked my junior Music class this week. Lying on the floor, in the middle of the circle, was a 1.2 metre soft, stuffed crocodile with a rather fetching grin. One of my latest op shop acquisitions. I hadn’t planned to start the class this...
by Dancing Wombat | Aug 24, 2015 | Blog, Learning Through Performance
Now I’ve got your attention, let me reassure you this is not a salacious attempt to hook you into reading something quite mundane. ‘Grandma’s undies’ is a brilliant game that the littlest Dancing Wombat was bursting to share with me as he...
