Dave Pommier
I am a homeschooling dad with a wife and two boys. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing, so I feel compelled to write it all down. In my spare time, I work as a manager for the local health district, drink too much coffee, and am an overenthusiastic martial artist.
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Category Archives: Nature
Fires near me
Apart from a brief amount of rain which cleared the air, we have been living in a smoke haze since the start of spring. It fluctuates as to how much smoke is around, but the last week has been particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Life experiences, Nature
Tagged bloke, climate change, fire, homeschool, safety
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Bird count
Every October for the last five years, Birdlife Australia runs the Aussie Backyard Bird Count. This is a great piece of citizen science. Like the name says, people all over the country go birdwatching over the course of a week … Continue reading
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Tagged bird, bloke, homeschool, learning in context, nature, science
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How to read a fire
In the opening weeks of spring, there have been over fifty different bushfires burning across NSW at any given time. As a kid, I remember fire season starting sometimes as late as November. In parts of the state this year, … Continue reading
Posted in Life experiences, Nature, Science
Tagged bloke, fire, homeschool, learning in context, play, safety
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Sea bins and storm petrels
So a local group were organising a beach clean up the other day. In one form or another, this is a reasonably common thing to do, organising a group of people to spend a day cleaning up a certain area. … Continue reading
Across Bali to Pemuteran
We have been spending some time in Pemuteran on the north west coast of Bali. I meant to post this a few days ago, but the internet connectivity was not up to it. Going from Ubud to Pemuteran, we spent … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Life experiences, Nature
Tagged bali, bloke, homeschool, learning in context, life experience, nature, Pemuteran, travel
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The opening days of Bali
So we are over at Bali. Simply getting here was an adventure in itself. It was an eighteen hour day of driving, hanging out in airports, and a six hour flight. Despite a few dramas, the boys handled it a … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Life experiences, Nature, Teaching and learning
Tagged bali, bloke, homeschool, learning in context, life experience, travel
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Herbalist
In a previous career, I spent several years and extreme amounts of effort studying and practicing as a herbalist. I enjoyed herbalism immensely, and if it payed the bills, I would probably still be doing it. With this background in … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Science
Tagged bloke, board game, herb, homeschool, nature, play, science, wildcraft
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Camping with kids
Over the new years break, we went camping at Stradbroke Island for a few days with several other families. We have never been camping with the kids before. They have never even slept in a tent in the back yard … Continue reading
Posted in Life experiences, Nature
Tagged bloke, homeschool, life experience, nature, ocean, play, Stradbroke Island, travel
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Tree of life
Over the last few weeks, we have been classifying things in our science lessons. We have been doing quite a lot of collecting things, and then breaking them into groups. We have classified rocks, plants, and random stuff we have … Continue reading
