After a long morning at home with Vio doing jobs around the house and me and the kids cleaning the cars, we went to our local skate park. This is a favourite as we can also walk there. It was really nice for both kids to have someone’s attention. It’s often just me with them […]
Category: Unschooling
Water marbles and painted toes
I received some water marbles with an order I made. So we decided to see what they were like. We added a tube to a bowl of cold water according to the instructed ratio. The marbles apparently increase in size over the course of 6 hours. This kids were quite intrigued by this and came […]
Books, birds and transformers
After getting some library books, Alex asked me to read one to him. He would ask me if I’d read the page and would repeat my last few words whilst pointing to them in the book. I hear him whispering to himself alot – playing with words and working out sounds when he associates the […]
Transformers, planes and snakes!
Three of Alex’s favourite things. Adding to the list would probably be chips, ice cream, long trains and birds of prey! We’ve been playing transformers a lot recently – it seems to be Alex’s ‘special time’. He really held on to that idea of special time from Hand in hand parenting. He would have special […]
Bird watching and some maths
We took another trip to Serendip Sanctuary to see it at our own pace. Alex told me that he wasn’t interested in birds generally, just birds of prey (and pigeons of course!!) We didn’t see much other than a Tawny Frogmouth (in captivity and wild). But it was a nice few hours. On the way, […]
More home time!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]