Play dough, noughts and crosses, garden play, mini foosball, Wild Kratts, Transformers, Avengers…. these are all featuring in our lives on a daily basis! Alex was asked by Soke what his best day would be. He told me at night when it was just us. Alex’s response was to train with his Dad (football). I […]
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Garden, canaries and thoughts on english
Since Spring is approaching, I’m getting into garden mode! I’ve done some being about what we’ll plant, and how we need to care for what we’ve got – fruit trees, strawberries and herbs currently. Daniel likes to help outside, he likes being out there generally and I’ve tried to get things for the kids to […]
Paper planes, I spy and more trains!
Alex has had lots of interest in planes, including paper planes and has been asking Vio to make him ‘the eagle’. I’ve also borrowed a book from the library with instructions on how to make different designs. He’s not so keen on making them himself, but I’ve tried a few and it’s been quite fun. […]
Home time
I had organised a homeschool excursion to Animal Land. Alex wasn’t keen to go, but I explained to him that I had made a commitment and I wished to uphold it as I think integrity is important. I apologised for not discussing it with him, and we agreed that I would consult him before I […]
I’ve read enough, perhaps too much. Time to wait and watch.
I read an interesting comment by Karen James on Sandra Dodd’s site the other day. It said how at first she was trying to do unschooling ‘right’ and it clouded her view of what was working. She decided to stop reading for a while. I think I’m doing the same, I’m trying too hard to […]
A movie, the aquarium and miniature trains
The start of the week saw us visiting the cinema. We watched ‘Inside Out’. Alex had asked to go, else it’s not something I would have chosen to do. It was very expensive and Daniel sleeps through them anyway. The movie started off with a great idea, but I got pretty bored of it as […]
Daniel’s birthday
At the weekend we had a family barbeque for Daniel as he loves to eat meat! Followed by a chocolate cake, because he’s also a chocoholic! The little man wasn’t too keen on having ‘happy birthday’ sung to him though. I can’t believe my baby is no longer a baby. But I absolutely love this […]
Playing with circuits – electrical and racing ones!
We try and make the most of catch ups with Alex’s few schooled friends which can now only happen at the weekend, and due to our current activity schedule our weekend mornings are busy. So we met up at a newly refurbished local park. Unfortunately though, there were a few mishaps and Alex ended […]
Erth’s dinosaur zoo, Wii and presentation
We finally had the Erth’s dinosaur show – it feels like I organised it an eternity ago. We went along to the education/schools show with other homeschoolers. The show was okay, the kids enjoyed it – even Daniel! I’ve been slowly going through some resources previously purchased when i was in ‘education’ mode and found […]
What we got up to – July 2015
Here’s a few piccies of what we got up to (WWGUT) July 2015 In need of a haircut! Image 1 of 44