Tag: rhythm of the day
Politicising the offspring.
This afternoon Big and I have wrapped IT and civics together by sitting down to talk through and complete her response to the current review on home education. Her identifier was 1103, so the numbers are climbing steadily this week, good. Tim and I have had several conversations about it all, and it’s pretty much…
Defensive orgo planning
For pretty much as long as she has been able to talk, Big’s last question of the day has been “what are we doing tomorrow?” and my standard answer is “I don’t know yet”. I’m not a person who lives by plans, and my children are, so I figure that this time around with home…
A weekend.
Yesterday didn’t feel like much of a Saturday. Knowing that my assignment was due in but not finished, I set the alarm (shock, horrors, I hate having the alarm go off on a weekend). I got up and got on, and texted to find out what time I was due at school for the meeting,…
When will I learn?
Two months ago, I posted about Small’s reading. I talked about whole word recognition, and how that’s what we were focussing on. We didn’t tell Small that. Somewhere since then, pretty much unaided, especially as he didn’t come to school that much in holiday club, he decided that he would get phonics, figure out most…
One week down
of our new school attendance pattern, and I think it’s gone pretty well all round. Big is now going four days a week, and Small three, so they’re both back to flexi-schooling, which I think suits them both well. Big is slightly unimpressed that Small gets a whole day of Daddy to himself, but seems…
is it too soon
to claim the day has improved? Perhaps I’d better stick with it’s improving 😉 After a traumatic half hour on Small’s part, when someone mentioned lunch to him, and he realised he hadn’t had breakfast (it *was* offered, but he was too busy being read to, then drawing, then dancing :roll:) and of course, you…
How much more education can we fit in one day????
It occurred to me that this blog has been somewhat devoid of home educational reporting recently. That’s because we’ve come out of the sit-down-and-do-work stage that we went into a little while ago, it appeared to serve its purpose and kickstarted the learning process again. We now have voluntary turning off of the television (ah…
All around the houses
of the Puddles and the Portico! And although I took my laptop with me, it only came out once I think, so this is all from memory. Weds morning we went to Shirebrook, where the activity was basket weaving. Must take a photo of Big’s basket, it’s fab. Woven from cane, she did 90% of…
Last night's post
finished with: “And now I’m going to go work on some graphics. And study some java. Maybe do the washing up. Package up some ebay parcels.” I thought I’d update you 🙂 I washed up. Worked on some graphics. Didn’t do the parcels last night, but did get them posted today anyway. Didn’t get to…
round and about
Been working pretty hard this weekend, though not quite as successfully as I’d like, and so we don’t seem to have done much that’s terribly exciting. The good news is that Big is getting much better at entertaining herself, has begun to turn the television off, or request the radio on (! I’ve got a…