Help! Not just anybody! Heeeeeelllllpp….!! Okay, enough with the Beatles! Over the past few months I have received various emails and messages on my blog for help with various bits and pieces (I know someone asked me about Bible time, and I seem to remember promising someone else that I would put up all my……
Category: Homeschooling
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 171
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……
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-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……
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 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 (màths), has officially left our little homeschool. She is school bound in September to study Theatre Studies, English Literature and History at……
Homeschooling with MEL Science: Green Sparklers
Each Tuesday afternoon, I get to spend time with my precious Abigail. Usually we do some chemistry from MEL Chemistry. Abigail wants to be a missionary doctor when she is older and has always had a fascination with anything scientific. MEL Science is a GREAT way for Abs to do some real grown up science.……
A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That…
My funny, nutty, crazy, brave daughter has finished all of her GCSEs! She sat her last this morning, which she said went well. She and I have worked crazy hard for these exams, so it is a welcome relief now they are over. She just needs to pass a final maths exam, which isn’t for……
A Quick Catch Up
Hey lovely readers! Apologies for going MIA, I have been drowning under exam prep, and guiding Lillie to finish her art and her photography qualifications. We are nearly there. Charlotte has taken four of her six exams. She feels that Latin went very well, and she’s fairly confident she’s passed. The Classics also went well,……
A Day in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 122
I thought I’d show you Lillie’s photography work, charting Charlotte’s journey through ME last year. I have snipped her final twelve photos from her project document, along with her notes: This morning, Thomas had a driving lesson and then was dropped off by his driving instructor to the station to catch the train to college.……
A Day in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 121
Exams are nearly upon us and I am finding I have less and less time to capture and write about our home-school days. So I am quickly writing this before we start school today, about yesterday. There’s not much to post as the littles were out for the day at their best friend’s birthday party,……