This is a very, very quick post today. With high temperatures forecast in the UK we decided to have a topsy turvy day today. Gary was at home. We had already decided that each of his days off we would spend some time clearing out the shed. We are trying to create a teen den…
Month: June 2019
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 170
Seriously, Gary needs to stop having days off!! It is SO hard to leave him in the morning...so sometimes I don't 🙂 I think it may have been coming up to nine before we were all up, and gone half nine before we started school. Gary started a new job back in December and he…
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 169
We started the day nice and early with some delicious coffee. Thomas has been working extra long hours at the moment, and needs to keep going for the next few days. He's helping out lots of fellow students with their end of year projects, doing sound engineering for various artists and their bands. He's loving…
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooler: Days 168
The weekend had gone by in a blur. One of the children's friends was feeling fragile and was struggling with the imminent death of a family member. We wanted to be there to love and support him. He is one of the older children's favourite people in the world. Needless to say there were a…
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 165
Today the children all had friends coming round in the afternoon so we needed to squeeze in everything I wanted to finish before lunch. The first thing was making sure Thomas' morning went smoothly. I made him breakfast in bed, but he chose to join us at the table. He was doing his driving test…
A Year in the Life of a Homeschooling Family: Day 164
This was a funny ol' day today with mum coming back from holiday (I have been cat-sitting for her for the past week), Thomas, who is working such long hours at the moment at college (and loving every minute of it!) and Lillie, who had a 'Singing with Makaton' course in a nearby town. She…
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 163
This morning I awoke bright and breezy, and woke everyone else up to join me 🙂 They groaned but I think they quietly actually enjoy the time it gives them in the morning... I took the littles to the park after a scrummy oatmeal breakfast. We were there for about half an hour and whilst…
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 162
Gary had the day off today. I find having my gorgeous husband at home very distracting! I had to force my way out of bed this morning, and leave him be so I could start breakfast. I have been waking the girls each morning at seven as well. They are less than impressed but it…
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 161
Before I write about today, I'd like to post some photos from yesterday. In England it was Father's Day. Now last year we had taken Gary out for lunch and thoroughly regretted it after spending a lot of money on food which came late, was cold and the restaurant was so busy and noisy, none…
Ancient Times Scientist Study: Thales
Welcome to a new series of posts about scientists in the ancient world. I will be starting out this series with a Scientist Study on Thales. Thales is thought to have been the man who began the study of science as we know it. His whole life was spent answering the question of why things…
Astronomy Unit Study
I have been wanting to collect all my astronomy activities into one huge go-to Astronomy Unit Study post, and finally, here it is! We are taking a day off school today thanks to finishing all I had planned yesterday. Yay! The littles have a friend coming round, and the older ones are fan girling over…
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 157
Gary's home from work today, so I asked him if he'd like to explore egg throwing with his younger girls... This is an activity from Abigail's last Curiosity Box. We don't want to move on to the next one until all the activities are completed in the current one. The goal is to create a…
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 156
Oh. My. Goodness. If I hear one more moan from my youngest twin about how much she hates maths I might very well leave home! Maths actually made her cry today. My usually very upbeat, happy and over the top cheery child is contemplating how long she is capable of going on...Numbers are her nemesis…
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 155
I was determined to get myself out of bed, dressed and public-ready before eight. Becca has been having episodes of breathlessness and irregular heart beats, so I wanted to get an appointment at the GP's surgery just to make sure it was nothing serious. She complains a lot about feeling tired, so I wanted to…
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 154
Well, we're back to school... at least three of us are. Thomas is at work, and Gary has taken the older girls to Kingston. Charlotte, although she has one more exam to take (mà ths), has officially left our little homeschool. She is school bound in September to study Theatre Studies, English Literature and History at…