Month: February 2014
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Precious Moments
Welcome to my first ever proper weekly wrap up. I feel all chuffed with myself because I’ve finally learnt how to collage! I’m so atrocious at this electronic stuff that any step forward is huge for me. The first collage contains pictures of us just hanging around, enjoying being at home: L11 looking gorgeous; T12 […]
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One Year Pond Study: Week 47 – A Quick Visit and a Surprise
Here is our pond this week: Spring is finally peeking around the corner and the trees are responding afresh with buds for a new season. It lifts one’s spirits and I am so glad we have the different seasons to enjoy anew. This particular pond visit was a very quick one, crammed in on our […]
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King John and the Magna Charta: Resources
As you all know, February is my least favourite time of home school, on account of a severe lack of energy. When I saw King John was coming up on the horizon, hibernation for its duration seemed like the only sensible solution. Of course humans don’t, as a rule, tend towards hibernation, and I figured […]
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Family Work Day
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, we had logs, branches, wood chip and lots of mess left over from the storm. It felt overwhelming. But you know what? It is much less overwhelming when one approaches situations like this as a family – en mass. Right from when the children were little, we always wanted […]
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Storm Damage
Last Friday we were hit by a nasty storm, so bad it kept all of us bar Gary and T12 awake. Everyone was a little scared, and rightly so. We had a large fir-tree, situated approximately 2 meters from the house, which was swaying precariously. The storm, being characterised by its wind strength, had already […]
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Mr Men Birthday Party
This week heralded the third birthday of my youngest. Three! How did that happen?  Our Mr Men school has created an obsession with all things Mr Men so of course she wanted a Mr Men party! I had a few thoughts, put together a few ideas, and set to work. All was against me, or so it seemed, […]
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A Day in the Life….
I am currently in the trenches of the February home school blahs, which I seem to get each year. I thought I had avoided them this year on account of the huge enthusiasm I was feeling towards the changes in our home school. But no, it seems I am as susceptible as ever and am […]
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Medieval Feasts: Subtleties
Subtleties or entremets (old French meaning ‘between servings) are works of art using food and story telling and which vary between simple frumenty to more elaborate models of fruit filled castles or allegorical figures from literature. They traditionally marked the end of one course and the beginning of another.  Towards the end of the middle ages subtleties […]
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My Struggling Maths Student is Struggling No Longer
Over Christmas I noticed a revolution going on. It was occurring so quietly, lead by my calmest and quietest child, but a revolution none the less. This radical change I speak off? L11, who absolutely, definitely, nothing was ever going to change her mind hated maths with a passion, had decided it’s not so bad […]
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So What Type of Home Schooler Are You Anyway? Part Five
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is […]