Month: May 2017
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What is Happiness? (IGCSE exam question answered by Charlotte age 14)
This is an essay my daughter wrote during the last 45 minutes of a 2 and 1/4 hour exam. Â I just smiled the whole way through. Â There is no greater gift a child can give a mother, than pure unadulterated happiness. Â I have typed it exactly as it was written so there maybe small errors […]
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Precious Moments {20th May – 27th May}
This week has, yet again, been all about the children’s IGCSEs. Â Thomas has been taking a past paper each day, and apart from yesterday’s paper has been scoring highly. Â He doesn’t seem as worried now as he was for his first chemistry exam. Â The twins have been doing a 2 hour 15 minute English paper […]
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Precious Moments {13th – 19th May}
Another very quick post. Â This week has been ALL about Thomas and his chemistry exam. Â He managed to sit every single past paper before his exam on Thursday. Â He honestly could not have been more prepared or worked any harder than he did. Â We took both him and his friend, Sophie, to the exam yesterday […]
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Precious Moments
There is not too much to write about this week. Â The older ones have been taking one past paper after another to prepare for their upcoming exams. Â I have been working hard along side Thomas, who was feeling the strain last week. Â It has paid off though because he is feeling a little more relaxed […]
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Taking a Blogging Break
Things are going to be quiet here over the next few weeks.  I have three taking exams this summer, with Thomas’ first in less that two weeks time, so I feel I am needed in the trenches so to speak 🙂 I will try to keep posting my Precious Moments posts but that will be […]
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Seasons of Joy: Still hanging on….
This is just a quick post, because I am crazy busy. So, having been sugar free for a month, this week I decided to decrease my fruit intake, which I think was probably masking any sugar deficit cravings I was (seemingly) lacking. Â I didn’t stop eating fruit, just decreased it. Â Man, this was waaay harder […]
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Precious Moments {29th April- 5th May}
I am very time poor at the moment, what with working alongside the littles and working with Thomas on his chemistry for hours each day. Â It’s paid off though because he is definitely starting to find the past papers a little easier. Â We were blessed by his physics teacher coming round and helping him with […]
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Life of Fred Maths as our Core Text
Living maths has always appealed to me, but I have never been confident enough to do it long term. Â I did, however, take Lillie off the traditional maths she was obviously struggling with (and very behind in) and we did living maths for a year together, starting from the very beginning. Â I was completely surprised […]
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Art Achieve {Review}
My two younger daughters have been enjoying art lessons from the Entire Level II from ArtAchieve. Â ArtAchieve is a company which offers cultural art lessons based in a country of the world and comes with extensive extra curricula ideas for extending the student’s learning past just an art lesson. Â We were blessed to be on […]
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David Livingstone {1870-1880}
The children learnt all about David Livingstone, a Victorian doctor who traveled to Africa as a missionary.  We read the following book on his life and watched the Victorian Pharmacy, an excellent dvd on medicines available during the Victorian times: But most of our work was based on an extensive David Livingstone learning pack which I […]