Very proud of Fran for handing her project in a day early (in the end, evidently dates are not her strong point!) Apart from helping her to do a page plan so she could see what needed to be done and then keeping her at it over the weekend, she has done it all herself. […]
And a bit of stuff on the creativity front.
In between co-ercing Fran into home work stints and taking Amelie to gym and the others to dancing, i did some stuff. I made this a while ago so it got finished off, put on the wall and then blogged over at Fimo-Ideas. After yesterdays fun, i wanted to have a go at something, so […]
Animation Station.
Maddy and i have been having a go at animation. First of all we had a quick go just to see what the easy mistakes to make were and how to use the software. And then, because Maddy doesn’t like to do anything by halves, we went straight on to Morph! Part of the remit […]
Round up, round up.
Last wednesday was latinetc and the kids thoroughly enjoyed DaddyBean showing how hot air expanded and contracted. Wine bottles, matches, candles, boiling water and all sorts of exciting apparatus used with out any risk assessment paperwork, no check on clas to adult ratios and no learning goal paper work. No one got injured. Well, okay, […]
Spelling it out some more.
There are an awful lot of very eloquent bloggers speaking about the review in blogland. Here are links to a few of them; keep following those links – and if you are not an HEer, keeping substituting “home education” with something that relates to your life and see how it sits on your tongue. It’s […]
Geography. And no, i couldn't have planned this a year ago.
Maps. Essential? Not essential now that savnavs and gps exists? Not essential but interesting? Or perhaps, possibly, fascinating. Maddy wanted to do some geography. She wasn’t sure what geography and i don’t particularly thrive on being handed a “subject” to just DO, like that, so i suggested we start with a couple of books. And […]
What the Home Education Review will really mean.
An English Man’s Home Is His Castle. But not any more thanks to Mr Badman, Mr Balls & the Labour Government. Instead, a review that was clearly a whitewash from the start, clearly had a pre-determined outcome and was never intended to give support to Home Educators, has been turned into another (yes, ANOTHER) actual […]
Utopia?
I ask you to imagine the unimaginable. I ask you to imagine a country where the fabric of society has broken down. I ask you to imagine a place where crime is rife, where the young people roam the streets and schools with knives and guns in their pockets, where the disaffected gather on street […]
With a question in my footsteps
We’ve had a couple of nice days; Maddy, Josie and i went up to see my nana, mum, dad, uncle, aunt and cousin on Sunday night which was a small but pleasant family gathering. It was nice to take those two to something without their louder sisters and we had a good time. I don’t […]
Fighting things i cannot see.
The sentence that as been proferred most often since i became a home educator is “oh i couldn’t do that!” Most people give one of 2 reasons ‘i just don’t know enough’ (which is, i suspect, a thinly veiled version of ‘no one but teachers know enough and i, unlike you, know my limits’) or […]
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