Category Archives: Big

piccies mostly, but maybe some blogging later.

And still they came #100books

Posted on Mon Jan 31 2011 by Jax

Few more reviews that the kids finished off earlier. Big reviewed There’s A Pharaoh In Our Bath! – her third Jeremy Strong of the week I think. And I took a look at the fourth Astral Legacies book, The Elephants’ … Continue reading →

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More reviews from the children #100books

Posted on Mon Jan 31 2011 by Jax

Big has been reading some Jeremy Strong, Read her reviews on Shinglestreet at The Battle for Christmas and The Beak Speaks. Small has read and reviewed Reviews at Worse things happen at sea and Safe Cracking for Students While three … Continue reading →

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11 minutes left

Posted on Wed Dec 22 2010 by Jax

for a quick blogpost to keep up the habit I’ve gotten into of blogging (at least once) every day. It’s been a good day. At 9 o’clock this morning I couldn’t forecast I’d be ending the day saying that though. … Continue reading →

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Questionaut, biology and yet more lego

Posted on Tue Nov 16 2010 by Jax

So Big went away last night, dropped her off with a home ed friend, so that they could spend the day at UEA doing biology. By all accounts they had an absolutely fabulous time – she was full of it … Continue reading →

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Will you remember?

Posted on Thu Oct 21 2010 by Jax

Do you even know today? What were you doing at 20:10 20/10 2010? Me, t’bloke, Small and the baby were at the table, eating as a family. Big was out. At 20:10 on 20/10 2010 she made her Guide promise … Continue reading →

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AFK

Posted on Thu May 13 2010 by Jax

Aargh, days are slipping by without blogging again! Tim was away for a couple of nights at the beginning of the week, which cut down drastically on my (evening) computing time. It also meant a convoluted set of logistics for … Continue reading →

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Blickling hall.

Posted on Sun May 9 2010 by Jax

While we were camping at Deersglade campsite, most of our friends spent bank holiday monday at Bewilderwood. As a family we didn’t fancy that – we’re not good at queuing, and I had a feeling queues may be involved on … Continue reading →

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Hyperbolic crochet and a purple hat.

Posted on Thu Feb 18 2010 by Jax

Having discovered that I’ve pretty much devoted a post to the boy, I figured I’d better do similarly for the Big little girl Here’s hoping it doesn’t take me as the last one We had a breakthrough in our search … Continue reading →

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Back to school.

Posted on Wed Jan 6 2010 by Jax

That would be the school situated in our living room, with a school day that goes nearly all round the clock Home education for us is very home centred right atm, due mainly to soa’s needs and requirements. We are … Continue reading →

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How do you get from no structure to sats

Posted on Mon Dec 7 2009 by Jax

in one quick year? Today I had the children do a Level 3 Sats Maths paper. Earlier this year they were doing nothing structured at all while I waited for them to deschool, so how and why have we got … Continue reading →

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Quick round up.

Posted on Sat Dec 5 2009 by Jax

While soa is happy in her bouncy chair. She’s increasingly awake and alert during the day, and also increasingly happy to be separated from me for more than a minute at a time. It’s not many minutes though, so I’m … Continue reading →

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A tale of two children.

Posted on Thu Nov 5 2009 by Jax

My children are very similar, and very different. I’m often accused of cloning, which I find amusing now that they are growing up – Big’s hair has darkened and her blue eyes are now brown. Small is still blond and … Continue reading →

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Still trying hard.

Posted on Wed Oct 28 2009 by Jax

Didn’t get through our routine bits yesterday due to an early morning appt for Tim and myself, but did on Mon and today. Regular maths is giving Big confidence to attempt sums while out and about – she worked out … Continue reading →

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Never off duty

Posted on Mon Oct 26 2009 by Jax

for reasons that we won’t go into in detail here, Big was banned from gameboy, tv and computer today in a triple whammy never seen before. And as we don’t do sit down work on a Sunday, this meant I … Continue reading →

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Long day and late night.

Posted on Sun Oct 11 2009 by Jax

Not quite sure how the children entertained themselves for most of yesterday, as Tim and I were busy sorting and reorganising to move ourselves down from the loft bedroom. It was beginning to get a bit silly me climbing the … Continue reading →

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Another week sails by.

Posted on Sat Oct 10 2009 by Jax

Wednesday was Maths, English and comparative religion. Well, comparative in that we compared it to the theory of evolution we’d looked at over the previous couple of days Small didn’t think much of it, he likes evolution, and keeps drawing … Continue reading →

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More idioms, new shoes and rhyming slang at the dinner table.

Posted on Wed Oct 7 2009 by Jax

Children did maths and English first off – more work on idioms for Big, trying to draw humorous pictures to illustrate various idioms. Not sure about the humour value of the pictures, but it did get her thinking about the … Continue reading →

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Not everything has a why…

Posted on Mon Oct 5 2009 by Jax

declared Small this evening. He’d been asking for Brown Beaver’s phone number, and I wanted to know why he wanted it. He said that not everything had a why, and I said I thought it did. His response was that … Continue reading →

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A day of two halves…

Posted on Fri Sep 25 2009 by Jax

So let’s talk about the nice bits Big settled quickly to her work again this morning – it seems possible that I’ve now found the right level of things to be working with her on both spelling and handwriting so … Continue reading →

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Orford castle.

Posted on Fri Sep 25 2009 by Jax

After a couple of days off working due to our hectic social life I was quite pleased with the children’s attitudes yesterday. Small did a sheet on telling time, plus a maths practice, and some reading, while Big did some … Continue reading →

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