FUNGI – yes I am shouting it’s what you do on one of Sue Bailey’s fungi walks. You look around find some fungi Yell “fungi” at the top of your voice and a crowd comes running and Sue tells us what it is we’ve found. We didn’t find an awful lot at Parkhurst. Then as [Continue]
I managed a night away without the rest of the family and amongst other nice things went to visit Guildford Cathedral. One of the things I loved was a new piece of art called Cruciform Vision. I thought we could have a go at creating something similar but it was a bit complicated so looking [Continue]
I am ashamed to say that it took me so long (about a year) to get Jonathan to the Tae Kwon Do class he wanted to go to that it has changed venue and into a Karate class. However having finally got there he is enjoying it immensely and is very pleased with his new suit and [Continue]
We visited a space event at the Needles Battery yesterday – celebrating the 40th anniversary of a rocket launch from the IoW. Now this ticked two vital boxes for home educators 1. it was free 2. it was educational Unsurprisingly then we bumped into a number of our HEing friends at this event. One did [Continue]
We were inspired by the art projects website to make some patterned skulls. Jonathan did one on orange paper first. This was completed when we listened to How To Cheat A Dragon’s Curse read in the luscious Scottish tones of David Tennant. Ruth made bead things and I drew pumpkins using these lovely pastel things. He was unhappy with [Continue]
Since we came home from the holiday we’ve been spending lots and lots of time revising for the girls environmental management iGCSE. I say we meaning all of us. The girls have been working though past papers and Jonathan has had to be pretty much gagged to stop him answering all the questions. This has shown me once [Continue]
At Corfe we did a retelling of Roald Dhal’s The Twits. The idea is that you learn the gist of a chapter and retell that part so we get the whole story told by a variety of different people. This year our story tellers aged from about 4 up to – well I’m 39 and [Continue]
Ruth is part of a team of home educated kids called Manic Mechanics who are entering the Landrover 4×4 technology challenge. Last week they were in the regional finals in Reading. As you can see they must have been inspired by Willie Wonka’s Umpa Lumpa’s. They have been working for a few months on making their car, [Continue]
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]
