Month: August 2013
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The Angelicscalliwags Challenge: August Sum Up
Sorry, I know I’ve posted it before, but I love this picture! Welcome to the August sum up of the angelicscalliwags’ challenge. The challenge is on to pay off our mortgage by the end of 2017 How did we do this month? We have currently paid back 17% of our mortgage since January of this year. Only […]
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Little House on the Prairie: Week Nine
Last night Gary needed to take our youngest to A and E as she didn’t seem to be using her left arm properly and kept waking up in pain. Because of a chest infection I had to stay at home, and spent a tearful few hours watching the clock move with the slowest tick tocks EVER. He […]
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T11’s Schedule
After much discussion, between us we have finalised his learning plans. First we looked at his own learning goals. He wants to study for his IGCSE in maths and physics early, followed by biology and chemistry. Right now he wants to study herbalism, but that is likely to change (last year was vet science, the year […]
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Love
When I was a little girl I did not dream of husbands and children. Oh no. I was going to be a career girl through and through. A doctor if at all possible, if not a nurse would do. One thing I was sure of was that I was going places in the work force. […]
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Helping a Struggling Maths Student: What’s the point?
If you have been reading my blog for very long you will know I have one strong maths student, one average and one weak. I stopped using all curriculum with the twins to attempt to rectify this. I can now with a certain amount of confidence say that I have three potentially strong maths students. […]
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One Year Pond Study Week 25: Atmospheric changes at the pond
Here is our pond this week: Each week we visit the pond there are almost imperceptible alterations to the atmosphere. This week, however, there really was a noticeable change. Things were calm, as they have been for a few weeks. The difference this week was that there was an air of slight desolation. The water level […]
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Little House on the Prairie: Week Eight
My plans for this week were to explore 1800’s laundry methods and to finish up projects from the last few weeks. I’ll post next week on the finishing up project (we actually need to finish them before I can post – ahem), but for this week it was all about the laundry. Here is the […]
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Just a pondering…
There has been much chat of late in our house about futures and what each child desires for their adulthood. As parents we have always held that childhood is the time to prepare for being an adult. It is the reason the children do chores and have school. It is the reason we don’t have TV […]
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Parallel Worlds
This morning I had a slightly surreal experience. Me: Right, I’m school planning, no one is to disturb me, okay? I look pointedly at my youngest twin, who is verbal, excitable and absolutely scrumptious. C10: Don’t worry mummy, I’ll not be disturbing you. I’m school planning too. Me: Eh? C10: A4 has asked me to […]
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Helping a Struggling Maths Student: Pascal’s Triangle, Magic Triangles & Number Bond Games
Practising Number Bonds using Pascal’s Triangle I thought I would have a fun frivolous lesson as both L10 and C10 seem to be handling any number bond related question I threw their way. Pascal’s triangle is a triangle of numbers made up of lots of number bonds: The whole triangle fascinates me and I knew it would feature heavily […]