Big would have been in school for 7 weeks, had I ever felt inclined to organise a school place for her. Instead she’s been home with me, and in those seven weeks (ignoring the several months she’s been home with me since she left nursery in february) we’ve:
visited a farm park, been on trips to London, Eureka, Jorvik, the National Railway Museum, been to the cinema for Film education week, and done a variety of other visits to friends. Edited to add – forgot the drumming and story workshop! She goes to ballet and swimming lessons. We read, go to the library, she plays on the computer. We try to go to at least one home education group a week, and spend a day or two a week with friends.
She watches too much television, and I spend too much time on the computer.
She wants to learn to bake a cake, and make a clock so that she can learn to tell the time. Jolly Phonics has fallen slightly by the wayside, and we’ve not really touched any of our maths stuff for ages, my fault as the table has disappeared under a mound of stuff and there’s nowhere for her to work on anything.
I’ve arranged another art session for next week, and we’re spending the weekend with home edding friends. Am I doing enough? Or is possible that I’m still actually doing too much?
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7 responses to “thinking about progress”
Jax I suspect Big has achieved more in the last 7 weeks than most schooled kids will do in the entire term. I don’t suppose if she were at school, she would have the energy (and thus desire) to bake a cake; nor would she have the energy (or time) to visit the places you have because the only time you would have had is the weekend. And I suspect that would have been spent recovering from the week at school.
I spend too much time on the puter (case in point – I’ve been up for 10mins and here I am reading/writing on your blog) and small person spends too much time on hers and watching TV etc. But it never ceases to amaze me what she learns and how well she progresses!
Sounds like LOADS to me!
Sounds like a great half-term to me 😉 Does it *feel* like too much?
Well the last two questions seem to suggest there is some correct amount of ‘doing’, which of course there isn’t. You and Tim and Big need to decide what’s enough, no-one else.
I very rarely achieve this state of Nirvana, so I’m not preaching it :-), but I do occasionaly catch a teeny glimpse of what it would be like to live with the “what is happening now is the right thing at this moment” feeling, and it’s very nice when it does. But it’s undefinable (or me anyway). But I do worry a LOT less about how much/little we do now that I did even a year ago.
My comment got too long so I am replying on my blog!
Have replied to you on your blog too Nic. 🙂