I read Tigerboy a book the other day. It was the first time that I’d read him a book instead of having him on my knee while I read to Smallest. Given he’s 9 weeks old I’m definitely slacking We have books coming out of our ears in this house. Smallest loves to be read [...]
Planning early education with help from Baker Ross and Random House children’s books.
May 8, 2012 By 7 Comments
Not quite a resolution…more of a challenge!
December 27, 2011 By 15 Comments
but I want to spend more time crafting and creating. I want to challenge myself creatively. I want to design items and make them, write patterns and share them, learn new techniques and broaden my horizons. And I’ve chosen a starting point. The technique is icord as shown in this video and the project is [...]
Nazca peg dolls for historyetc
May 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
If you’ve never heard of Nazca culture, you probably aren’t working through The Story of the World the way we are. One of the things I love about home education is learning alongside the children, and history is a fairly weak area for me. So this week was particularly educational for me at least. I [...]
AFK
May 13, 2010 By 3 Comments
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 the Monday evening activities – Big was picked up slightly late for her fun swim [...]
Blickling hall.
May 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 a bank holiday. Instead I’d taken both our National Trust and English Heritage handbooks and [...]
Back to school.
January 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Quick round up.
December 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 typing rapidly! Can’t remember when I last blogged properly about the older children (odd thing [...]
A tale of two children.
November 5, 2009 By 8 Comments
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 blue eyed, but they are so very obviously brother and sister. Stick their half sibling [...]
Still trying hard.
October 28, 2009 By 1 Comment
Never off duty
October 26, 2009 By 6 Comments
