The kids have been reasonably pleased with the whole “Night Mail” thing and have done some great work on it. I’ve not done photos yet but Maddy has done an amazing snippet of poem to fit into it:- “And though the country is very vast, she’ll never get lost, she’ll keep going fast. She’ll follow […]
Poetry Study: Night Mail by W. H. Auden
Last Wednesday was one of our new Co-op-Ed days (which I will blog!) but I did another poem with the each of the older/younger groups. I’m loving doing this, I think it is the first time I have felt properly useful in the group in the whole time we’ve been going and it has made […]
Happy Face and Button Pictures
Oh i could twist and turn in the mud of a good old wallow tonight. But I’ll spare you the agony; I think it would probably be gratuitous and maybe I’ll need to do it more another night. So instead, let me tell you how I spent the day with the two girls who were […]
Real Home Ed
The real home ed, of course, continues to happen between times and probably the best times of all are the car ed moments. They always have been. Fran has been reading the Diary of Anne Frank; I think I read this at 14 but she is at a great age to read it, as she […]
French/Science/Latin/Poetry/English Day
We might need to come up with a catchier title for this. This is now a very long time ago in my head, so I’ll keep it properly brief. We reformed for an ad hoc day of trying out some new things and a different way of getting the kids together to enjoy some education […]
History Day – the Greeks
I am so far behind on educational record keeping it isn’t true. I’ve got at least several nice days to write up, so you’ll just have to take it as read that in between times, they’ve also been doing ordinary stuff, Mathletics etc etc. Music lessons have happened, trampolining been done, ballet exams got through, […]
Learning Through Play – any other way?
Play seems to mean a multitude of different things. It means something a child does that keeps them out of their parents hair, something children do together, sometimes it means a game inside, or a game outside; to me, as a child, playing usually meant being alone, deeply engrossed in a game from my imagination […]
Code for site badges
A couple of people have asked me for code to put up badges to the shops recently. Am not very clever at these things, but this should do it. <a href=”http://www.craftmerrily.co.uk”><img title=”fb-cm” src=”https://patchofpuddles.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb-cm3.jpg” alt=”CraftMerrily” width=”160″ height=”160″ /></a> <a href=”http://www.playmerrilytoys.co.uk”><img src=”https://patchofpuddles.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb-pm3.jpg” alt=”PlayMerrily Toys” title=”fb-pm” width=”160″ height=”160″ /></a> I’m not entirely sure how to do it so […]
The End of All Things
The one that starts with things endings and ends with things beginning and covers up an awful lot of wondering “how could you?” It has been a horrible week; I’ve cried harder this week than I have all year, mostly bout things I can’t write and partly because anything stressful turns into more tears about […]
Can home ed kids have a sickie? (Lego is better!)
And the fabulous (depending on your point of view!) answer is… no, not really. See, another plus point to home education- you can work even when you are sick… no reason to miss school days, ever. We even learn on holiday, we even do projects on holiday… we… we… we… yes, they read in the […]
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