by Dancing Wombat | Apr 25, 2016 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog, Coping Strategies
Environmental activism starts at home, doesn’t it. Like many families, we sort our rubbish, compost our food scraps and have a milk bottle in the sink to catch water from the hot tap while it’s still running cold. And the bottom of our coat cupboard is a sea of blue...
by Dancing Wombat | Apr 16, 2016 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Family and Community
Did I say Littlest Wombat seems to have settled in reasonably well at school? How foolish. I jinxed myself. The first few mornings of the new term have been nothing if not nightmarish. A week might be a long time in politics but it seems an age in Wombat world. Have...
by Dancing Wombat | Apr 7, 2016 | Achievements, Blog, Family and Community
At the start of Term 1, I wrote about the new beginnings for my four Wombats (see New beginnings). There were also new beginnings for me. Well, we’re one term down, three to go. How have we fared? Overall, things have gone well. Compared with Term 1 last year, this...
by Dancing Wombat | Oct 30, 2015 | Blog, Learning Through Performance
Today was the big day for my senior class who’ been rehearsing the Explorers play. NO scripts! Except my own, of course. And one for my assistant. The students clustered around me as we walked from the playground to the hall. “We’re not using our...
by Dancing Wombat | Aug 2, 2015 | Blog, Coping Strategies
The Dancing Wombat family and Grandma had a wonderful opportunity to travel during the last Easter break. While we took the train as much as possible, at times we had to hire a car. And of course, hire cars these days don’t come with an MAP – they come...
