Tag: home education
How to use Reading Eggs to help your child learn to read.
At the weekend, I posted a picture that I’m incredibly proud of, so I’m going to take this opportunity to share it again. This is Smallest. She’s 5 in November. She hasn’t started school – we home educate. And she’s reading her first book. We don’t do school at home. No formal sit down lessons.…
how to make a spindle box at home – cheap Montessori materials
So, last week I wrote about the Montessori method and materials. I recommended a couple of books – I’ve now found Montessori’s Own Handbook (kindle) for just 36p. I can’t resist that myself quite frankly! I also talked about making my own version of a spindle box. (The spindle box is discussed in Discovery of…
Getting my act together as an educational blogger – call for carnival posts.
I really really loved running the not back to school carnival. And I get the impression that it was pretty popular with a lot of home ed and other bloggers. So, I wondered if we could make an educational carnival a regular thing? Who is up for that? I was thinking maybe 4th Thursday of…
Pointless education and missing caches.
You can take the boy out of the school, but can you take the school out of the parent? There’s a constant balancing act here, to discharge our legal duty under Section 7 of the 1996 Education Act 7. The parent of every child of compulsory school age shall cause him to receive efficient full-time…
The Not Back to School Carnival – because education is mandatory, but school isn't.
Home education is a valid and legal option. And there are lots of people doing it. This is a carnival of celebration, of encouragement, and I’m thrilled that so many people have joined in. So without further ado, let’s take a wander. You may remember I posted some prompts – a few people have taken…
Home education on Quib.ly
A new kid in town? There’s a new parenting website in town, but this one is a bit different to the mum focussed networks that seem to be all over the place. (Not that I’m saying mum focussed networks or bad, but does mean that there is room for alternatives!) Quib.ly is a membership site…
Let's talk about support
When you look up home education on many local authority websites it will talk about setting up meetings to discuss your plans and the support they’ll offer. You don’t need to meet with them, there are a variety of ways you can offer evidence about your educational provision. And if they are anything like our…
There is another way.
Twitter is littered with people frantically preparing for back to school. Shopping trips. Articles from businesses on how best to manage it. Preparing your small children for the start of their school journey. It’s all over the high street, back to school sales, uniform bundles and so on. And a few quiet voices whisper that…
Yet another change in home ed styles.
Over the years I’ve tried a wide variety of styles of home education. We’ve been structured, used bits of curriculum, tried out Montessori, unschooled, gone childled. And nothing has really worked for any length of time. Which is why we keep changing. I’d love to be able to unschool, but it really really doesn’t work…
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…