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Guest post: Going to the Fairy Garden by Sarah P.

Redwood Park Surrey fairy garden

Blueberry Fig Showcase: A new series of guest posts by Blueberry Fig students, clients, and members of our community. Enjoy this wonderful inaugural post by Sarah P!

It just smelled like a normal forest with normal trees and branches with nothing very surprising. When we arrived at Redwood Park we parked in the rocky parking lot, the air smelled fresh. We were heading to a park in the forest and there were so many people. We were heading to the park because some of our friends were there. After a little play, we headed off into the forest to see the fairy garden.

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52 Ways to Learn in 2020

The alphabet has 26 letters and each one can be uppercase or lowercase, which gives us 52 letters…one for every week of the year! In 2019, I used alphabet colouring pages for an Instagram series on language and discovery. For 2020, I’ve designed my own alphabet (hand lettering is meditative) and using each letter to suggest ways to bring learning into our lives – not for school or Education with a capital E – but just to enrich our experience of the world we inhabit.

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Joyful lesson planning

Want a lesson plan that gets you through the week, covers all subjects, works for a range of ages and grades, and involves shrieking dinosaur babies living in a public park? Here’s a guide to creating a lesson plan that will give you freedom as a teacher and give your student a sense of purpose and meaning. A lofty goal, but now you’re intrigued…

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The lexicon of learning: ABCD

I’m doing an Instagram series of colouring pages from Renee Chin’s The ABC Coloring Book. I worked on these for over two years, so it was especially satisfying to get to the end of the alphabet. Each post is around a theme or concept – a meditation on details.

  • “A” is for “ambivalence” and “alacrity”
  • “B” is for Borodin (Alexander Borodin, a 19th Century Russian composer)
  • “C” is for “cartography”
  • “D” is for “dessert” and “desert” and “deserve”
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The Fig List II (sans postscript)

We’re back with another edition! This week, I recommend two ways to seize power, leading the revolution against tedium and underwhelming plot lines. But only if you are 13-18 (for the first item) or 4-10 (for the second item). For those individuals unfortunate enough to be 11 or 12, all I can offer as consolation is that time will trample these barren years underfoot and you’ll eventually be old enough for one of these undertakings.

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BerryFig Calendar (I’m trying out the name)

Full set of decorative calendar inserts
Full calendar view
This isn’t even all of it. I decorated the back as well! But you’ll have to wait for a future post to see that.

Remember the plan?

A few months ago, I made a solemn promise. In a post about how to create a circular, tentacled calendar for teaching purposes, I promised that I would write about one I made for myself. Better a few months late than never, right? So here it is.

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