Tag: Early Years
The whole early years/ school age thing and home education, with a book review.
Increasingly via twitter I’m getting contacted about home education. This is good. I’m glad that ppl have somewhere to reach out to. When I was considering it for Big, all those years ago, my online answers came courtesy of the Muddlepuddle, now Early Years, yahoo group. That group put me in touch with a fantastic…
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…
Good for you.
A couple of weeks ago our home ed group went to the park. It was a glorious day – even though we hadn’t reached the advertised dates, the water features had been turned on and as my kids had brought sunsuits and towels ‘just in case’ they were very happy. soa had a good time…
Ropey start, but we recovered well.
Small is just full of cold – I hauled myself upstairs and steamed myself gently in the shower for a bit and that seemed to help. Once done with that, rolled up my sleeves, metaphorically speaking, and cracked on. Big did lunch again, while I was showering, and after it we successfully made cinnamon scented…
We had our quiet day
after I got another decent night on the pullout bed. Apart from the backache 😉 Mainly today we’ve pottered. Finally got around to doing some more work on Big’s scales – I’m taking piccies as we go along. We played the piano a bit – by a stroke of luck I opened the children’s song…
Beginning to wonder
if we might have cracked it. There appears to be child led learning going on all over the place. It’s a bit more contrived than I expected, but I think that could just be me getting into the swing of it. Today we have done more MMM stuff, including planting (do you call it planting…
From the sublime to the ridiculous
Well, we’ve done more Milly Molly Mandy school today, covering a bit of history although I’m not sure what else you’d say it covered. Some of that entrepeneurial stuff Joyce was talking about I think (it’s the chapter where MMM finds a penny for those in the know). Big is desperate to learn to knit…
"the pink is just glorious"
Sometimes my daughter makes me laugh out loud. The above statement was exclaimed as we came over a hill top on the way home, to be faced with a pretty good sunset, and of course, it was her favourite colour 😉 I had my choice of titles today, could have gone with Woohoo, he slept…
Seriously sticky scrapping
Yes, we did follow Joyce’s suggestion to make a Jolly phonics sound scrapbook. Big was thrilled with it all, and from being nowhere with indentifying sounds in words found several for herself. The fact that she got to shred lots of our recycling bag improved the situation no end, and Small enjoyed contributing to the…
This reading thing
I’m beginning to suspect that Big just isn’t ready for this. Seems so odd – she is a bright child in a lot of ways, although immature at times. (Lots of times, lol.) She says that she wants to read, but today we had a performance on the grand scale, a repetition of last nights.…