Month: April 2019
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 113
We began the morning by making simple sentences form the Latin flash cards. This was a slightly unusual start to the day, but I had meant to do it yesterday but plain forgot! I thought it would be such a simple activity, but honestly it took ages! Whilst Charlotte went round to mum’s for Latin […]
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 112
The race is on. Charlotte’s first exam is two weeks today! It’s her Latin Language exam, arguably the hardest paper for her. She has learnt all the vocab, and will continue to revise this each day with Granny, but she needs to work a bit on the grammar. Charlotte knows half of it really well […]
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Life of Fred: Edgewood Revision Booklet {Free Download}
I’ve made some more notebooking pages, this time going over the work covered in Life of Fred: Edgewood. I use this Life of Fred: Edgewood Revision Booklet to make sure the girls have understood the concepts from that book before moving on to the next Life of Fred book: Life of Fred: Edgewood – Quadrilaterals […]
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 109
My eight year old made porridge this morning for the masses, all by herself. She wasn’t asked to do it, she just decided. Becs rolled the oats and cooked one dairy free porridge for Charlotte and a larger dairy one for everyone else, with nuts, seeds and frozen blue berries! Just before school, I captured […]
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 108
Thursdays are a slightly odd day for us because we are all fairly busy doing things outside of the house. This means we fit in school where ever we can. Lillie is at work on a Thursday and today opted to walk there, leaving so early I did not get to see her. She has […]
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 107
From the moment I got out of bed, and Lillie greeted me at my door with a loving hug, I knew today was going to be a better day than the day before. Lillie is a very special child, because she notices what is going on with everyone around her and seeks to fix it, […]
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 106
All day I’ve had a niggly horrible feeling that I’ve not done enough. I’ve not done enough to help Lillie succeed in her photography. I’ve not done enough to help Charlotte succeed in her GCSEs. I’ve not done enough to help Charlotte succeed in her maths which she finds so very difficult. I have an […]
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 105
Easter holidays sure are weird this year. We took a couple of weeks break, although Charlotte did a little bit of Latin each day. But Thomas is only just now starting his Easter holidays! Very odd. We are now entering the final leg of Charlotte’s exams and Lillie’s A Level photography. I have spent the […]
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Art Lab for Kids: Lab 3 – Scribble Drawings
Over the past week, the girls have been creating scribble drawings. They had so much fun, it was like looking for shapes in the clouds! Scribble Drawings: Practice I always have the girls use their sketch pads to do a relaxed, non-final drawing based on the lesson. Because it is just a casual sketch, it […]
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My First Ever Teacher-Parent Meeting!
Last night we went to our first ever parent-teacher meeting. You could tell we were novices. For starters, unbeknown to me, Gary booked us a slot at 630pm and a couple of days later, I booked us a slot, worried that we’d miss out if I didn’t. Y’know, sure to be sure as the Irish […]