Tag: Big
Another week sails by.
Wednesday was Maths, English and comparative religion. Well, comparative in that we compared it to the theory of evolution we’d looked at over the previous couple of days 😉 Small didn’t think much of it, he likes evolution, and keeps drawing little cartoon strips of how creatures could have got from one celled amoeba to…
More idioms, new shoes and rhyming slang at the dinner table.
Children did maths and English first off – more work on idioms for Big, trying to draw humorous pictures to illustrate various idioms. Not sure about the humour value of the pictures, but it did get her thinking about the language involved, and she was a lot happier with that as an exercise. Small actually…
Not everything has a why…
declared Small this evening. He’d been asking for Brown Beaver’s phone number, and I wanted to know why he wanted it. He said that not everything had a why, and I said I thought it did. His response was that there was no why that the earth started, and I have to admit, I had…
A day of two halves…
So let’s talk about the nice bits 🙂 Big settled quickly to her work again this morning – it seems possible that I’ve now found the right level of things to be working with her on both spelling and handwriting so she enjoyed it today. We did some work on a_e and ay words –…
Orford castle.
After a couple of days off working due to our hectic social life 😉 I was quite pleased with the children’s attitudes yesterday. Small did a sheet on telling time, plus a maths practice, and some reading, while Big did some copywork – writing over a poem printed out in jardotted which only elicited low…
Wednesday wanderings.
After a jampacked Tues, obviously the next thing to do was have a fun filled Weds too. Hm. Not sure that I’ve quite got the hang of this scheduling yet. Anyway, we started out by dashing over to the next town to drop off my TMA – looked like there was another envelope without stamp…
nature walk and incidental learning
It may seem as if I have abandoned the whole philosophy of autonomy and unschooling, nothing could be further from the truth. I’m well aware that the majority of the children’s education is still delivered incidentally as it were, facts absorbed from yoghurt pots, conversations about words and meanings, TV programmes imparting animal information or…
autonomy vs peace and quiet…
I have been waiting since January for my children to deschool, stop watching endless CBBC or playing on mind numbing websites, for them to show and develop some interests and learn to get along instead of screeching and bickering all day. I’ve run out of patience 🙁 Maybe I don’t respond in the right way…
Sutton Hoo.
I’ve driven past the signs to Sutton Hoo lots of times on our way to Framlingham Castle, but somehow I hadn’t registered that it’s really very close to us, linking it in my mind with Framlingham, which is about a half hour away. Anyway, with this weekend being Heritage Open Days weekend, and therefore Sutton…
Iron education and swimming.
On Friday I decided I needed to get to the bottom of my blood test results and understand whether I needed medication or not, and whether my preferred option of homebirth was a realistic one. So I nerved myself up and rang the doctors, to find out that they now have a new phone system…