I’m a little short on the mental energy to blog, but I committed to a post a day, so here it is. Yesterday Josie and I made paper boats. She wax designed one side in thick coverings of colour and then we learned to fold them. We used some Stockmar crayons that we were given […]
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 […]
The Home Ed Round Up Bits
Trying to think what has been going on the last couple of weeks in the “in between other more meaningful posts” places. I always end up going to look on Facebook and Twitter to see what I’ve been doing. We finally managed to get most of the Lego builds in one place and one piece […]
Two Art Days, a Latin Day & a Dog
Help! I’m all behind on home ed blogging again. We’ve been busy and active and out and about but with one thing and another, I’ve not caught up. By the end of this week there will have been more busy-ness, so I better try and whisk through. We’ve done two full art days to catch […]
A Day at the Science Museum
We’ve decided this year to make sure we visit a London museum (or other equivalent destination) each month. This is not cheap, even when they are free, since getting 6 paying people to London on the train costs £60 even with a railcard. However, the odd non-charity sponsored post is paying for this, more or […]
Last weeks Latinetc & this weeks Historyetc
Here I am, back to record keeping. Of all the myriad of reasons for doing that, along with ‘people come a read this blog and then tell me they started to home educate because it seemed do-able from what I write’ (a fact that is occasionally worrying to say the least!) I think my best […]