Month: February 2016
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Why I won’t be Making any Money out of my Blog Anytime Soon
In November I asked for help to make money from my blog. Â The government was, at the time, threatening to take away tax credits if you had children over five and did not go out to work. Â For us that would have been hard, so we looked at other ways to bring in money. Â A […]
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Goals for the Week Ahead
Last weeks goals – how did we do? School Goals Bible (830-9): Continue with Apologia ‘Who am I?, personal devotion times with the little ones using Grapevine Studies (stick figuring through the Bible) Maths (9-945): B5 – 5 lessons; A7 – 8 lessons; C13 – 5 lessons or more; L13 – 5 lessons; T14 – 10 […]
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Fun, Futures, and Following Dreams
This has been such an amazing week 🙂  It seems like forever since I felt this way, although certainly we were getting there last term.  This term, however, has been truly wonderful so far.  We are always a happier family when we are working hard and even more so if what we are learning is […]
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Flower Fairy Party for a Five Year Old
The day began with a mammoth present opening session. Â We make big deals of birthdays here and the children always have lots of lovely gifts to open: She was delighted with them all but particularly liked her Flower fairy musical jewellery box, which she trails around the house with her, everywhere she goes! I had […]
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Fun, Hands On Dinosaur Unit Study: Week 1
Last term we began a really fun unit study on Dinosaurs which is proving to be waaay more popular than I first thought it would.  A7, in particular, would sit and listen to me reading out loud from her dinosaur encyclopedia all day long if I let her.  I don’t 😉 Making Dinosaur Dress Up I […]
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Ancient Celts Unit Study
Part 1- Introduction and Resources: Part 2- Costume, Dress Up and Make Believe Play Part 3- Field Trip to Ancient Butser Farm Part 4- Hands on Activities For more ideas:
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Goals for the Week Ahead
School Goals Bible (830-9): Continue with Apologia ‘Who am I?, personal devotion times with the little ones using Grapevine Studies (stick figuring through the Bible) Maths (9-945):Â B5 – 5 lessons; A7 – 8 lessons; C13 – 5 lessons or more; L13 – 5 lessons; T14 – 10 lessons Morning Meeting (945-1045): Mystery of History (3 […]
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Precious Moments
This week was our week off. Â I had great plans to catch up on all my blog reading, write a few posts, school plan and rest some, maybe even slipping in a bit of book writing at the same time. Â I was so busy I did absolutely none of the above. Â Nada. Â Sigh. Â We did […]
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Precious Moments
This has been a furiously busy week with much work and not a lot of photo opportunities. Â We are off next week and I had lots of work I wanted to finish before then. Over the weekend B4 wrote a letter to A7 and drew a beautiful picture at the bottom. Â It was so sweet: […]
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Australian Aborigines: The Boomerang and Didgeridoo
This week the children learnt all about the Australian Aboriginal Boomerang and Didgeridoo. First, they researched the boomerang and Thomas made one. Next, the little ones played with an authentic didgeridoo. And finally, we all tried our hands at playing it. We were not very good. But we did have a lot of fun trying! […]