Category: Home Ed Life
Still in a field….
I’m still in a field. This has been blogged by the wonders of the three mifi, and I bring to you a video of me pleading for your vote…. I’d really appreciate your help and support with this, in terms of voting for my app, sharing this post on fb or twitter, or otherwise getting…
Everyone has a story.
I’ve always wondered what it was like to be part of a newspaper story. You know, how does it feel to be part of a disaster, do you really start feeling brave when you are described as such, that kind of thing. Do you notice the moment that you suddenly become newsworthy, is the narrator…
Skinned knees and dry nappies.
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…
Nazca peg dolls for historyetc
If you’ve never heard of Nazca culture, you probably aren’t working through The Story of the World the way we are. One of the things I love about home education is learning alongside the children, and history is a fairly weak area for me. So this week was particularly educational for me at least. I…
Learning to read, take three.
What with the whole home education thing, I’ve been very involved in the learning to read process for both of my older children. I think I’ve learnt something from that experience. Point 1 – there is no one way that suits all children. I know about the current educational vogue for synthetic phonics, and I…
Got it! A #SilentSunday follow up.
This was the picture I was trying to get yesterday for Silent Sunday 🙂
Why I think books are important.
Zoe over at Playing by the book is hosting the BMB carnival this week, and it’s around a bookish theme. I don’t actually know whether I’m already too late to be included, but it’s too good a theme to pass up tbh, so I thought I’d waffle on for a little while before I crawl…
With each stride, more words came.
I am daughter, sister, partner, mother. I have worn many names and carried many labels. Known such love, made connections, and experienced much loss. I cook, clean, write, sing, dance, read, create, entertain, cry, shout, swear and run. I am alternative, eco-friendly, geek, vegetarian. Niche, mainstream, square and weird. I plan, procrastinate, play and potter.…
Finally using my Christmas present.
I’ve had some fab Christmas presents in the last few years. There was the digital piano (back in the days of 2 salaries and one child). My netbook, still in use most days. My digital camera. Much loved, though not used nearly as much as I should. Then, there was this: It’s a strawberry planter.…
Montessori moment.
This is how I got 10 minutes to sweep the kitchen floor. I sat her in her chair with two small bowls, some sugar puffs and a spoon, and showed her transferring between bowls. She was engrossed. Sure, some of them went in her mouth, and some of them went on the floor, but that…