We have thoroughly enjoyed having Gary here the past two weeks! We’ve managed to get bits and pieces done around the house and I’ve also done school every day (more’s the miracle!). It’s half term next week, so I just wanted to finish up all the things we had started. The biggest chunk of our……
Category: Homeschooling
Mystery of History: Lesson 19 – Moses and the Exodus
Moses and the Exodus: Reading Along with the Mystery of History text, I read Exodus, and Wonders and Miracles to the girls. These are both excellent books, especially Wonders and Miracles – it is full of stories, poems, readings, songs and incredible drawings. I consider it one of the more special books I own. The……
Precious Moments and Seasons of Joy Combined
Gary’s at home. That’s probably all you need to know. I am never very productive when my husband is around the house! That said, we are finishing up work in time for half term (not this week coming, but next), and Gary has got some bits and bobs done around the house. So it’s all……
Seasons of Joy: A look Back Over Lockdown
Apologies this has taken so long to get to. We all had a cold last week and decided to take it easy… The lockdown for us was a mixture of high stress and wonderful peace in equal measures. The high stress came from situations that were completely out of our control and mainly to do……
Precious Moments
Another excellent week! I am loving being back to my normal homeschool! I’d forgotten how freeing it was to simply follow interests. Not once in the past five weeks have I needed to persuade the girls to do homeschool. They are loving it as much as I am, and are so thankful that workbooks form……
Wind in the Willows: A Book and a Film
I read the Wind in the Willows book over two weeks. Whilst easily understandable for my 12 year old, my nine year old struggled to keep up. She snuggled by my side and looked at the wonderful illustrations. By the end of it, she was completely enthralled having got used to the long, complex sentences.……
Learning About Flight Efforts in the 1900s
It was during the early 1900’s that flight took off (pardon the pun😁), with the very realistic possibility that man would take to the skies. I have to be honest and say that teaching flight wasn’t necessarily something that filled me with excitement. Choosing it as our science study for our 1900-1910 learning was maybe……
Precious Moments
I went to bed last night and just felt very, very content. Life is good right now. Thomas is happily ensconced in his dream job as an assistant worship pastor. Living at home, working a little from home and a lot from the church, it is the perfect balance of home and work for his……
Congratulations Thomas!
I was going to write about flight today, but Thomas received some really good news today so I thought I’d share that instead. Thomas obtained a distinction for his extended BTEC in Music Production and Technology. In A Level terms this is the equivalent UCAS points as three A* A Levels. As you can imagine,……
Valentine’s Restaurant: Take Two
Do you remember this post from 2013? It was the one about the time my children (or at least the three older ones) opened up a restaurant for Gary and I to have a ‘romantic’ night in on St Valentine’s Day of the same year. I had been perusing through some of my posts and……
Seasons of Joy: A Look Back Pre-Lockdown
I thought I’d write a (not very) quick catch up post (two in fact) about the past six to nine months. I am hoping to capture just brief memories of those times as I did not blog at all. Excuse the topsyturvy nature of this post… We were very blessed by a friend of ours……
Precious Moments
This week has been one of those satisfyingly good weeks. We are getting into a familiar and very comfortable rhythm with school. Resources I had bought have worked particularly well and have more than sufficiently been worth the money we parted with. Our reading for the week has been particularly enjoyable. And the girls have……
Mummy-Daughter Day: Talking Periods
Talking about periods and other very important things is one of the parenting jobs I most look forward to. It is an honour to guide my girls (and boy – he joined in too for the talk with the twins!) into adolescence so they don’t feel utterly confused and bemused by the sudden onset of……
Botany Unit Study: Seeds
I have such a lot of posts from last year to get up on my blog! Taking six months off suddenly doesn’t seem like such a hot idea. Anyhoo, here is our lesson on seeds, using the Apologia text book. Checking Out Different Seeds I read the chapter to the girls, who then got to……
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – A book and a Film
I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but I have never read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz! Not ever. Not as a child, nor as an adult with young children. Yet, it is such a great book, easy to read and a hundred times better than the film. And we loved the film! The……