Category: Home Ed Life
Been and gone again.
This morning Sarah-the-speech-therapist came around to assess Small’s progress. We know he is making astounding progress – this is a child who was to all intents and purposes non verbal at the start of this year, who now has a vocabulary I wouldn’t dream of trying to count, and who structures long sentences (I counted…
Where I'm from
I am from the cul de sac, from Black Jacks and paper bags of penny sweets. I am from the ordinary semi that grew and grew to fit in the biggest family on the street, and all the neighbourhood children in the back garden on swings and a slide with a paddling pool in the…
If I were an insurance renewal paper
where would I be? ‘cos I can’t find it. I don’t need it to renew my insurance, regular readers will know that I did that three weeks ago. But I need the renewal sheet as it has evidence of my no claims bonus on it, and my new company needs that evidence. And can I…
Cuteness personified
Oh, I wish I’d had a camera! Big was asking Small how many slices of toast he wanted for lunch. Very carefully, and reasonably clearly “2 slices”. Then with much concentration, he managed to hold up two fingers just to be sure!
There's a faint possibility
that I’ve explained this a little too well. I’ve just been told that we should go to bed earlier so that we can get on with producing another sibling for Big…
The day continued frighteningly well
Big worked her way through huge amounts of my scrap fabric – they work it as capes, used it as blankets, she cut and sewed, it was great. Forgot to mention that she drew a card for Small yesterday, wrote in it and everything. Bizarrely she is now doing his initial backwards, but most other…
As anticipated
Sarah-the-speech-therapist has been and gone, and was absolutely thrilled at Small’s sudden leap into speech. I looked back on the blog (must work out why it doesn’t display all posts in an archive!) and it’s just over a month since he burst out into speech, and now he rarely stops 😀 She’s going to call…
and the home ed part of it all
Now, I know it’s Sunday. I know it’s a day of rest for many. I know that my children don’t know that, and one of the things they’ve never got around to learning is that education is supposed to happen 9 -3.30, Mon-Fri, within the walls of a school. I’m quite pleased about that actually.…
First week.
Given the pattern of our lives just now is radically different to how I expected this whole home education thing to pan out, I’m applying a bit more forethought to the approach atm. This fits in nicely with Merry starting up a new reading year sort-of-curriculum blog, so I’m going to see what we can…