Funky boots and triominos. Tissue paper hot air balloon team work. Best balloon there apparently. Fabulous light harp. I made this. Finishing the day with bubbles. The only drawback was the driving. 1 hour 45 on the way there, then I missed my junction on the way home and added ten to fifteen minutes of [...]
Hectic hurried days.
May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Lego Hero Heaven
November 9, 2010 By 3 Comments
More prize winning shenanigans
October 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A little while back I entered a competition in the Times. It was celebrating/ promoting the National Trust Food Glorious Food campaign, and it included both admission and meal vouchers. I won. I like winning competitions So on Thursday we used the vouchers – we took Tim’s brother and sister-in-law to Sutton Hoo, spent some [...]
Long day and late night.
October 11, 2009 By 8 Comments
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 ladder, and certainly wouldn’t have worked well once babe is actually here! So I sorted [...]
A day of two halves…
September 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Orford castle.
September 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
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 copywork – writing over a poem printed out in jardotted which only elicited low level [...]
nature walk and incidental learning
September 21, 2009 By 4 Comments
It may seem as if I have abandoned the whole philosophy of autonomy and unschooling, nothing could be further from the truth. I’m well aware that the majority of the children’s education is still delivered incidentally as it were, facts absorbed from yoghurt pots, conversations about words and meanings, TV programmes imparting animal information or [...]
Sutton Hoo.
September 13, 2009 By 2 Comments
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 half hour away. Anyway, with this weekend being Heritage Open Days weekend, and therefore Sutton [...]
Saturday: sun, sand and sea.
September 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Saturday morning evaporated away, I’m sure that there was playing, I seem to remember doing washing, oh and we communally weeded a tub to put in some tomato plants I’d been given. Turned out that the tub had previously had potatos in it and the children, but mainly C, rescued a big bowlful of very [...]
