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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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