Our HE group was lucky enough to be invited to be guinea pigs for a new Estuary Explorers project. We were hoping to go along and learn all sorts of things about estuary birds and their habitats through activities and games. Jonathan and I were both feeling pretty yucky but decided we would go anyway. Ric (formally Ric the [Continue]
There is this maths site that I really like. It’s called Nrich and the main reason I like it is that it is full of puzzles. But we’ve not really used them at home. Why not? Well because we have preferred that maths develops alongside their normal life lived and not to teach it formally but to [Continue]
I got a text from Rebekah last night (she was at festival and I was at home making chicken curry). She said “My knitted socks are the best things!! My feet are the only warm dry part of me!:) Nice to feel appreciated. [Continue]
Jonathan and I got soaked coming home from the festival early but the girls stayed until the evening – things definitely got muddier! [Continue]
So yesterday was world wide knit in public day. I was at the Isle of Wight Festival (volunteering for Gift to Nature) so managed to knit pretty publicly there, not in front of the main-stage though but in the much more intimate venue the Kashmir Cafe. So here I am watching my friend Mick Watson play some [Continue]
There will at some point be a longer post featuring this basket but really could there be a better example of a home educators basket. Please note the organic cheese, the (looking as if it was)home made bread, the vegan puddings, the felted purse, the colourful diablo, fruit and Suma peanut butter. Actually it could [Continue]
For lent we gave up eating meat - well sort of. I just decided I wouldn’t use meat at home – if people wanted to eat meat when they were out that was fine and we did eat meat when we went on holiday for a few days . We also decided that we would [Continue]
The Learning Zone had a variety show on Friday. A chance to show case the many talents the children, adults and families together have. We had stories, songs, circus activities, poems, music and some uncategorised. So follows a small sample of the amazing talent that is the Learning Zone Who will every forget that to get the [Continue]
One of my on-line home-ed friends is hosting “A Typical Home Ed Day in Photos” Carnival. I thought I give it a go but have only managed to keep taking photos for 2 half days - I’ll have another proper go next week but here are my half days! So this is Wednesday a rather silly day to choose [Continue]
One of the lovely mums from our HE group runs a science group once a month using the Crest Investigators materials. We’ve built bridges and tested whether toast really does land butter side down. The investigation this time was to build a raft and then see how many Jenga blocks we could load on to [Continue]
