Tag Archives: Homeschooling
Africa so far
To get into the African groove I decided, before we got into any serious learning per se, to YouTube Africa Dance. Continue reading
Home-schooling a science theme through the ages
I lead a preschool group at our church called Junior Jivers. It was a big decision for me to take it on, bearing in mind I have four children tagging along with me wherever I go. Four children for whom I bare the sole blame if they grow up to be uneducated heathens. Continue reading
Exploring the Globe
I have been meaning to write about this for a long time, I just can’t seem to find a gap in the doing things to actually write about the things that we are doing. Continue reading
The Amazon at home
Our church has been laying new carpet. This means the biggest cardboard rolls we’ve ever gotten our hands on are just laying around the place and since we are studying the continent of South America, and looking closely at Brazil, when I saw them I immediately thought tree trunks. Continue reading
Spelling for Whovians
I was totally failing at keeping my ASD seven year old in the room long enough to even hear the words we were trying to learn let alone attempt to spell them. I realised that one of the word families we were working on was the `ood` family. Yay I know that family, those weird squishy, tentacle faced, hive brained singing dudes, I know them and better than that Eli does too. Continue reading
Book Week 2011
On Wednesday 17 books relinquished their most cherished characters handing them over to the care of excitable youngsters who we subsequently, as any sensible person would, invited around to play. … Continue reading
Language Fails
We have been looking at contractions today, it did not run soothly. Me: “I am going to read a word to you and I want you to tell me what … Continue reading
Sorry Sabrina, these blocks are educational
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 … Continue reading
How to Make History Come Alive: Natural dyes.
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 … Continue reading
Triangle Tessellation Placemats
(sorry it’s not the best photo I can’t figure out how to get a good shot without the glare off the lamination) We are all sick here, well Lani is … Continue reading