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How many apples did Jane have?

Orchard Toys: Magic Cauldron game #review

Posted on Fri Apr 15 2011 by Jax

The lovely ppl at Orchard Toys sent me this Magic Cauldron Maths Game a couple of weeks back when I was bewailing basic maths skills on twitter. You see, we have a bit of a problem here. It’s a confidence … 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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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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Dimensional discussions in a two child house.

Posted on Sun May 9 2010 by Jax

Big is out for the day. She went out on a late breaking sleepover last night, and is now off to a toy museum with friends. Small, on the other hand, is exploring the concepts on mathletics. He was looking … 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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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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autonomy vs peace and quiet…

Posted on Sat Sep 19 2009 by Jax

I have been waiting since January for my children to deschool, stop watching endless CBBC or playing on mind numbing websites, for them to show and develop some interests and learn to get along instead of screeching and bickering all … Continue reading →

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Sutton Hoo.

Posted on Sun Sep 13 2009 by Jax

I’ve driven past the signs to Sutton Hoo lots of times on our way to Framlingham Castle, but somehow I hadn’t registered that it’s really very close to us, linking it in my mind with Framlingham, which is about a … Continue reading →

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Rolling into one…

Posted on Fri Sep 4 2009 by Jax

Weds, Thurs, Fri, can’t quite tell where one ended and the next began This is mainly because I’m struggling atm. Bump is big and uncomfortable (and pleasingly wriggly!) and the strain on my back is pretty much constant now. I’m … Continue reading →

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Patchwork skirts and no outings.

Posted on Wed Sep 2 2009 by Jax

Sunday we had intended to go to Bawdsey radar open day via the foot ferry. But instead, after the cooked breakfast, the girls and I started on a patchwork skirt for their toys. As is usual, I horrendously underestimated the … Continue reading →

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Maths, Time travelling and scanning

Posted on Thu Aug 20 2009 by Jax

Can’t quite remember how I got into the battle with Big Wednesday morning over her maths, but we did. From being thrilled with the new books, she’s now back into full resistant maths is boring mode. But I put my … Continue reading →

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