Tag: things that go bang
Charity shop science kits – cheap home education resources
Disclosure: contains affiliate links. Easy ways to cut home education costs. One of the criticisms often levelled at home education is the cost of resources, and it’s true that if you shop new for everything, it’s easy to spend a lot. We’re past masters at hunting down bargains though, and we’ve had some fantastic finds…
Education courtesy of science kits and jigsaw puzzles.
One of the plus points of being sent items for review is that very often I can work them into our educational plans. So it was great that we were offered a Wild Science Lip Balm Laboratory for Big to take a look at, as there are all sorts of educational experiences in a kit…
SATs all folks!
I started yesterday with the best intentions to catch up on paperwork and blogging. We all know about best intentions 🙁 Ah well, lots of other stuff was achieved instead. As part of my continuing (ongoing, proactive 😉 ) campaign to improve Big’s self-esteem as she compares herself to school children and finds her education…
It's all about perception. Oh, and nutrition.
For some reason that I don’t quite understand, Big feels that she is behind where she would be if she were in school. I doubt that’s true. There are definitely things she hasn’t covered that she might have done, but there’s an awful lot she’s done that she’d not have done in school. However, this…
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…
Turnaround Tuesday.
Tuesday was Forest School, which surprised me as it has more often been on Thursdays before. Just as well I’d checked my calendar an evening or two before, otherwise we’d have missed it completely, and that would have been very annoying. So I dragged children out of bed early (for them anyway) and chivvied them…
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…
cause and effect or bribery and punishment?
First day of the new system, it appears that the children had a rather different idea to how it was going to work than I did. Our system doesn’t involve boxes per child prestacked with work – I’m nowhere near that organised, and I doubt I ever will be. Instead their boxes have pictures that…
hovercraft, puters and stuff
Didn’t have a good night’s sleep last night, so was reluctant to start the day today. Am told by Tim that I missed Small strumming his guitar this morning, but there you go. Once I was down and breakfasted, the whole family collaborated over yet another Science School project, this time he wanted to make…
