We got the book The Story of Inventions half way through last term, I wasn’t looking for it, it just popped up as a You May Also Like This suggestion after I bought another book. I don’t usually like being sucked into spending more money but the cover illustrations looked so cute I couldn’t resist. [...]

This is what happens when you set Lilly up with a sight word program and then fail to double check she is actually doing what she was told. And it goes on…. …and on… …and on. (Actually there was a lot more) So not quite what I had in mind. "Did you practice your sight [...]

We have been thinking a lot lately about those shadowy figures who inhabit the distant lands of The Past. And as a way of bringing them alive in our minds I thought we could have a go at living replicating some of their everyday activities. So this is us learning about how people in the past [...]

How do you teach your kids about history, art, engineering, architecture, environmental issues, collaborating and problem solving all in one day? Easy send them to a friend’s house with the contents of your recycling bin and let her do all the hard work. When I first started thinking about home schooling the kids I had [...]