Barbara dropped off Big in plenty of time for me to get to the local home ed meet this morning – the first meeting of the month is held at a nature reserve ten minutes from us, which is nice. I think the thing that I like least about home ed given where we are living, is how much driving I end up doing. This week, I’ll be in the car every day, and I don’t like that at all.
Anyway, turned out we were doing postcards today. Go to your favourite place on the reserve and sit quietly for 15 minutes, listening and looking to see what you could see and hear. Big managed 5 minutes of quiet, which I thought was extremely impressive. Then we had a postcard each, some crayons and a pencil, to make a picture and write it, to be sent to whoever we wanted.
I thoroughly enjoyed doing this – we saw dragonflies (lots of!), various creepy crawlies, could hear the birds and the wind, and it was very peaceful, apart from the constant drone of cars from the rather busy road which bisects the reserve.
Then we wrote our cards, and Big finished hers with “I can hear the far off sound of the sea” which made me reevaluate – suddenly the noise didn’t seem nearly as annoying.
She wasn’t up to stopping for the second activity of the day, so we came home and she’s now having some quiet time in her room. Think I’ll get her in a minute and drag her into the garden – shame to waste this lovely sunshine!
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kwym about driving, I hate it too – sometimes we stay at home simply for that reason – even with the home ed life there can sometimes be too much ‘busyness’ available to partake in, and I have to remind myself that we don’t have to do everything!
Your postcard activity sounded lovely though, and I love the road/sea sound thing! We can hear the motorway from home if we listen very hard, but I don’t usually notice it.