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Home education or domestic servitude?

February 28, 2012 By 10 Comments

One of the reasons given by the labour government for their investigations into home education and proposed legislation about it was to protect children from domestic servitude. I wonder what they’d have thought about the two hour home economics lesson that took place over yesterday and today, and resulted in Big providing tea for the [...]

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Jamie Oliver at home review and giveaway with the Sun Buzz magazine

February 5, 2011 By

Now why oh why did I think that the Sun Buzz was out tomorrow? My bad Quick, stop reading and run to your local newsagents/ supermarket if they are still open, and grab your copy of the Sun Buzz to get your token for a free Jamie Oliver DVD! (Oh, and you could follow them [...]

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Cake, cookies, Guides and fundraising.

February 4, 2011 By 11 Comments

I confess that I wasn’t planning to join in with the Friday Club this week. I’m not much of a one for baking. I’m just not good at it. I follow instructions carefully, and at the end, get back something that looks nothing like the picture in the recipe book – it’s depressing. However, Big [...]

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Maths, Time travelling and scanning

August 20, 2009 By 4 Comments

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 foot down and required her to do some – I feel that she needs to [...]

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Deliveries, friends and a trip to the beach.

August 5, 2009 By 1 Comment

Got up this morning to find two deliveries in the porch – maths books from Maths no problem and our new veg box from Abel and Cole. The veg box scared me slightly, so I left it in the kitchen while I hid behind a netbook, but the maths books went down really well with [...]

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Cake, park, yet more swimming.

June 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment

As planned today, Small and I baked a cake this morning. He doesn’t get terribly involved, apart from in licking the bowl out ,but he was there, and we talked about measurements, he did a bit of stirring, and when I asked him to get Tim to check what the equivalent to gas mark 5 [...]

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Big wants to learn

June 9, 2009 By 5 Comments

Victorions Where we live Math’s Spelling Sionce a new langwig? Craft Poetry Accordingly, her library haul included two books on toys, Toys (What Was It Like in the Past?) and Look Inside a Victorian Toyshop. I found Seashore (Usborne Nature Trail) which I thought might help with learning more of the area around where we [...]

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What the children did

April 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Outsourcing the children for the morning was an excellent thing for them – while I’m sure they’d have enjoyed the scan bit of my morning, I’m just as sure they would not have enjoyed the well over an hour of waiting around that happened alongside it all. Instead they used S’s copy of The Children’s [...]

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Ravenous readers and feeling the fear.

January 17, 2009 By 4 Comments

I really must start going to bed earlier. Although it isn’t actually half the day I miss out on, and Small didn’t get up any earlier than me this morning, so maybe I should just accept that mornings don’t really happen and evenings do. Hm. Anyway, was in the shower when friend and friend of [...]

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Big’s plan

January 6, 2009 By 4 Comments

Sitting down with Big to work out what she thinks she ought to be doing during this home ed lark. This is being typed pretty much as we speak, so will be somewhat disjointed We both think that maths should be a regular activity, as maths gets easier if you practise it. She wants to [...]

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