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]

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]

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]

Martin has been leading a few walks in the walking festival, all drawn from a new walks booklet he has been involved in developing.  Yesterday we took Jonathan along with us (girls too blistered from Walk the Wight) and did a brilliant walk starting at  Mottistone heading down the coastal path to Brook  and past the Longstone [Continue]

Now if I think you can learn quite a bit with a cardboard box then I think you can learn just about anything with food. Jonathan and I were participating in one of our favourite guilty pleasures (watching cookery programs)and were enjoying the Hairy Bikers one afternoon.  One of the recipes they made was a Swiss roll, [Continue]

We all know that small children love cardboard boxes, they can be sat in, tipped over and turned into pretty much anything with a bit of imagination – but can they do anything for an older child?  We spent a day where our main focus was directed by a box and this is what we [Continue]

For a few years I have been planning to celebrate Pi day but I kept missing it.  This year - despite the fact that we were really too busy – we decided we would clebrate it. Pi day is held on March 14th in American terms 3:14. I invited people from Our HE group to join us and we celebrated Pi [Continue]