Category: Unschooling

Back home to a lazy day and a very relaxed week. We picked up our stick insects and canary, Alex visited with his pigeon friends, we had lunch with Vio’s parents, played at home, Alex and Vio played chess, we watched movies, read books and kids were in bed early! Alex explained to me how […]

An early start! But we made it to the airport and then to Canberra safely. The kids enjoyed the short flight. Although I think they enjoyed watching ‘Go Jetters’ on the touch screens more. Alex sat by the window and enjoyed seeing us fly in the clouds, and he noticed the trailing vortices on descent. […]

It was the school holidays, which means a break from some of our activities, though not all. On the first day, we looked after the kids’ cousins. They painted, played outside, played hide and seek, did some colouring, played with duplo and watched some TV. We survived! 4 kids all day long is hard work! […]

Alex says in the car “1000 cents make $10”. He told me how he worked it out – 100 cents make $1, then there are 10 $1 in $10. Then he went on to tell me that 200 cents make $20. We visited a library to take part in some science experiments. Alex was the […]

I finally got around to making playdough, and it was good playdough!!! Yellow and green, favourite colours. The kids played with it for most of the morning before we headed to the zoo. We headed straight to the reptile house and saw lots of shedded skins. Alex was excited that the file snake was moving […]

One of the books Alex picked at the library the other week was about dragonflies, and so we finally sat down to read it. Well, tried to! Alex finished off nearly all of my sentences – not because he can read, but because he knows so many facts about them! Thanks to Wild Kratts! We […]

Alex has shown some interest in some new things, most notably gemstones and rocks. I think this started when he and some other kids were exploring at the 100 steps homeschool event. Since then he has looked around for rocks and is mostly interested in amethyst as a hs mum showed Alex some amethyst she […]

We attended a library session for a record breaking story time. Alex and his homeschooled friend are so obviously not in a classroom! they interact and express excitement freely, sometimes inconvenient! Alex volunteered to be a part of the story by dressing up – he’s the scuba diver. Our homeschool park day was cold and […]

Early mornings! The kids have changed and aren’t lying in anymore. Neither are they going to bed earlier, though they both as to go to bed almost every night. Daniel between 9 & 10pm and Alex between 10 & 11pm. As it gets closer to 11pm, I do tell Alex that I am tired though! […]