Category Archives: Homeschooling
Led up the garden path
This is a photo of our old, very narrow, constantly flooded and covered in rubble front path. It’s one of the things that has constantly bugged me about this house. … Continue reading
Very small cave painting
As part of the unit on Australian Aboriginal art and culture we decided to have ago at cave painting, well rock painting to be precise. We used the dot painting technique that was originally used in impermanent sand art works. Continue reading
Pigs and honey
We read Jeanie Adams book Pigs and Honey. The book tells the tale of a family living in the Aboriginal community at Aurukun, a town on the cape York Peninsula … Continue reading
How to make Indigenous Australian Paint
Hunt around in your backyard for coloured rocks, not the type you buy from a garden centre these ones need to be naturally occurring Australian rocks. If your garden is … Continue reading
Yawk Yawks and Potkooroks
When we went to see the terrifying sea monster and all his friends we also watched a really cool performance by a company called Erth. The play was live performance … Continue reading
How to induce nightmares
We took the kids to see the Mythic Creatures exhibit at the National Maritime Museum, and scared the living daylights out of them. It was advertised as having Dragons, mermaids … Continue reading
When good babies go bad
This last shot is especially for my sister who keeps trying to peer past all those annoying kids in the photos I put up to see how the renovations are … Continue reading
Over the fence schooling
Last week our next-door neighbours provided us with loads of entertainment and learning opportunities when they had pavers laid in their backyard. We did our normal maths and English in … Continue reading
Money Matters
Lani has had a bit of a phobia of money, totally freaking out whenever it came up in maths last year. I realized that she had a problem visualizing numbers … Continue reading
How to make pillow case skeletons
Today we learnt about the importance of Skelingtons. Sorry I know I should use the correct pronunciation but some times the the kids word creations deserve to be spared the … Continue reading