Tag: 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…
Solstice at the beach.
I thought Solstice was yesterday. (In my defence, it’s often on the 21st. Except when it’s not, like this year. Solstice is the moment the sun reaches its most southerly position, which was 4.49 am or some such, so this morning’s sunrise was the one to watch.) Shame, because yesterday’s was better. https://www.instagram.com/p/_jIxHvtp4L/ This morning…
First it was allegations of abuse, now it's radicalisation – the dangers of home education
What *is* it that politicians think I’m doing with my children? I think I’m home educating them. Educating them otherwise than at school, as is my legal right. Well some of them. Tigerboy is too young to count, and Big is now in school, and don’t get me started on that. It is a parental…
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…
Monday morning changes.
So today, this happened. Which was a bit startling. Big has, on her choice, gone to the local academy, joining year 11 to do GCSEs. She looked very happy and excited in her new uniform, which fitted her pretty well, and was thrown together in a week. All good fun. (Or not. If you follow…
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…
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…
