Category Archives: rhythm of the day

get down with it

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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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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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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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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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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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hovercraft, puters and stuff

Posted on Mon Aug 3 2009 by Jax

Didn’t have a good night’s sleep last night, so was reluctant to start the day today. Am told by Tim that I missed Small strumming his guitar this morning, but there you go. Once I was down and breakfasted, the … Continue reading →

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Slightly soggy Saturday with science and music.

Posted on Mon Aug 3 2009 by Jax

Occasionally, it rains here. Sometimes it rains quite a lot. Saturday was a rainy day – every now and then it dropped a lot of water, and then there were dry patches. Small is taking off with his Science School … Continue reading →

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Autonomy and swine flu

Posted on Sun Jul 19 2009 by Jax

Not directly connected For the rest of the week, Small amused himself on the computer mainly. Occasionally this was very irritating, depending on what website he chose to focus on, but most of the time, I could see pretty direct … Continue reading →

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Friday out at friends

Posted on Tue Jul 14 2009 by Jax

On Friday we went over to see Em. The kids took stuff to play magic school, including spare wands for E and R, and I took a bag of yarn and various patterns so I could start something else. In … Continue reading →

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Meet Jax, the entertaining educational machine.

Posted on Wed Jun 10 2009 by Jax

As promised to the children, my alarm went off at 8 am this morning. Given that I didn’t get to sleep until well after midnight, despite being in bed before it, then woke again at 5 and did that horrid … Continue reading →

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Feeling wobbly.

Posted on Thu Mar 12 2009 by Jax

Another day of removing things – Tim is now in Suffolk with a van load of our furniture and boxes and bedding (kids and I have camping mats tonight, I miss our memory foam mattress already ) Big has had … Continue reading →

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What no Potter?!

Posted on Wed Mar 11 2009 by Jax

This must be the first day for really quite a while that I have neither heard Stephen Fry, nor seen Daniel Radcliffe on a screen nearby. Kids haven’t even done any reading of that today that I know of, although … Continue reading →

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spinning in circles.

Posted on Fri Mar 6 2009 by Jax

Yesterday I got organised in the morning and took Tim’s car into town, drove it round the town centre three times, then gave up, parked it in a vacant space on a cross road, and carried four box loads of … Continue reading →

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Backdating…

Posted on Wed Feb 25 2009 by Jax

Getting behind with blogging, this is the story of Monday, typed up on Tues at Merry’s, and posted from the Beans on Weds Can’t be bothered to change the date though! After the children get bored they move on to … Continue reading →

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Boredom is good for them.

Posted on Sat Feb 21 2009 by Jax

Over the last day or two, the children have started to get bored of the television and computer. This shows quite simply – they fight, which is not so good, and then they start to do other things, which is … Continue reading →

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Politicising the offspring.

Posted on Tue Feb 17 2009 by Jax

This afternoon Big and I have wrapped IT and civics together by sitting down to talk through and complete her response to the current review on home education. Her identifier was 1103, so the numbers are climbing steadily this week, … Continue reading →

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Defensive orgo planning

Posted on Fri Jan 2 2009 by Jax

For pretty much as long as she has been able to talk, Big’s last question of the day has been “what are we doing tomorrow?” and my standard answer is “I don’t know yet”. I’m not a person who lives … Continue reading →

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A weekend.

Posted on Sun Oct 5 2008 by Jax

Yesterday didn’t feel like much of a Saturday. Knowing that my assignment was due in but not finished, I set the alarm (shock, horrors, I hate having the alarm go off on a weekend). I got up and got on, … Continue reading →

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When will I learn?

Posted on Wed Sep 10 2008 by Jax

Two months ago, I posted about Small’s reading. I talked about whole word recognition, and how that’s what we were focussing on. We didn’t tell Small that. Somewhere since then, pretty much unaided, especially as he didn’t come to school … Continue reading →

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One week down

Posted on Sat Sep 6 2008 by Jax

of our new school attendance pattern, and I think it’s gone pretty well all round. Big is now going four days a week, and Small three, so they’re both back to flexi-schooling, which I think suits them both well. Big … Continue reading →

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