Category: Home Education
Fun with felt at home education group
First meet of the year, a workshop run by a felting expert. Now, I’m reasonably familiar with felt after my Kentwell experience, but I’m never going to pass up on the chance to work with an expert, and this turned out to be great fun. Smallest designed a picture, I just love the way the…
Paper Dolls at the New Wolsey studio in Ispwich.
Another day, another theatre. This time we were at New Wolsey studio in Ispwich, for an early years homeed group trip to Paper Dolls, based on the story by Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb. The illustrations hugely influence this production, featuring the paper dolls (Ticky and Tacky and Jackie the Backie, Jim with two noses…
If you go down to the beach today – look out for the art.
We (me and the younger three) are away at a youth hostel this week, for our traditional pre Christmas home ed camp. We’re in Sheringham on the Norfolk coast and there is a lot of crafting and playing and reading and eating going on. Today though, I needed fresh air. And I declared that Tigerboy…
The Magic Paperboat Treasurehunt
I don’t remember where or when we got this book. A long time ago anyway – it’s out of print, although available secondhand on Amazon (picture to left is affiliate link). Anyway, it’s not the most eloquent story, or the best illustrated picture book. But what it does have is instructions for you to join…
You're going to miss this
Sitting in the library at a local sixth form, I suddenly realised that life is racing by. Big is pondering next steps in education – her story not mine, so no details here at the moment – and one thing seems certain, September will bring big changes to our family’s way of life. Years turn…
Friday fun with a three year old
Today Tigerboy was pushing every boundary of being 3, right up to when he got a pair of scissors and chopped up the lens cleaning cloth I was using to put a screen protector on the iPad. Not good. So he got a screen ban. And then he got lots of targeted attention. There was…
Project based deslumping
Small, who is often self propelled, is also sometimes not. And at the moment he is in a slump. He’s run out of Alex Rider (read the last book!), isn’t enthused with Maths, not even all that focussed on the pokemon website he started. And as soon as this sort of slump hits in, he…
Friday frolics at the beach
With home ed friends. When the older children were young, we were part of a network of early years home educators, built around Merry’s Muddlepuddle site. Perhaps because there were so few of us we worked hard to build relationships that are still strong 10 or more years later. (I’ve known Merry online for more…
Interested in (home) education? 7 authors you should read.
1) John Holt. Despite (because of?) his experiences as a teacher and lecturer, John Holt became the leading spokesman for the home schooling movement in the US, publishing a magazine called Growing without Schooling for parents teaching their children at home. It was his books, How Children Learn and How Children Fail that first introduced…
Why I'm not laughing at Catherine Bennett's home schooling satire
At the weekend I saw a link to Catherine Bennett’s Modern Tribes: The homeschooling parent article. Actually, that’s not quite true. I saw it multiple times. On home education support groups. Friends’ facebook feeds. And on twitter. The article, if you can’t be bothered to click through and read, is one of a series of…
