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A home education hypocrite

April 18, 2013 By 5 Comments

Yesterday we had our semi regular trip to a friend’s house for history etc. We’re on book three of story of the world, and we’ve reached the French revolution, American war of independence and James Cook exploring Australia. So one family made brioche and reenacted the French Revolution, there were posters made for fair taxes [...]

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Filed Under: Ages past, Small steps

History with added flowers.

February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

It was history etc today. Slightly odd in that Big didn’t come with us, she was at a Kentwell friend’s birthday party. Shame the dates clashed as there were several extra participants in history she’d have loved to see, but that’s the way it goes. There’s apparently something coming up about tulips in the chapters [...]

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How we home ed a toddler

February 18, 2013 By 4 Comments

With books for pre writing skills And fabulous solid poster paints Which were so good Small had to get in on the act (It should be pointed out I drew the heart. ) Shared reading books. And a sleeping babe. He won’t fit in there much longer. And that was our morning. There was some [...]

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Pirates! And plasticine at the pirate castle.

September 4, 2012 By 6 Comments

We went here. There was pirate food. A man with a beard. Some plasticine and instructions. And about an hour later, a dodo. Lovely to see Maggie, who has also blogged it here Joanne (and finally put a face to the online persona!) And meet Julie. Thank you DNA PR and Aardman Digital for a [...]

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Education courtesy of science kits and jigsaw puzzles.

March 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

One of the plus points of being sent items for review is that very often I can work them into our educational plans. So it was great that we were offered a Wild Science Lip Balm Laboratory for Big to take a look at, as there are all sorts of educational experiences in a kit [...]

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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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Filed Under: Big, Montessori minded, Small steps, Soa, won't cook, can't cook

Skinned knees and dry nappies.

June 4, 2011 By 2 Comments

Today Smallest wore a pretty dress. She loves her pretty dresses. Unfortunately they don’t offer a lot of protection to the knee area, so when she tripped while we were out in the garden she skinned her knee pretty thoroughly. She was very brave about it, well, after the wailing stopped courtesy of a quick [...]

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Hectic hurried days.

May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Have had a couple of horriedly hectic days this week, with appts in far flung places and odd gaps in between. Fortunately have managed to fill some of the gaps with friends, like the Puddles and the Beans It’s cost a fortune in diesel as well – meaning that when I can I drive veeerrrrry [...]

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Kentwell and 1553.

March 19, 2011 By 5 Comments

Today I dragged the children out of bed just after 7, nearly three hours earlier than their preferred rising time in order to drag them 45 mins across country to an open day for potential re-enactors at Kentwell Hall. It was a cold start to a long day, as we drove the bright sun was [...]

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Blackout and Slime squad #100books

February 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I’m sure I’ve read other Robert Swindells books before, and if I haven’t, I don’t know why not. This is well put together, economic with words in a style I appreciate, while still drawing a picture of the time, the situation, the characters and the plot in such a way that it is all utterly [...]

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