Gary left for Slovenia early this morning for three days on a grass conference. He left me with a heap of hormonal females. I am thinking I might move out! The day began with tears and lots of cuddles. Baths always help so I prescribed one for each of my girls and we kind of……
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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……
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……
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……
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……
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……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 87
I think I must be fighting an infection at the moment, along with mum, Thomas and Becca. I feel so tired. In a moment of weakness I moaned to my younger twin, who grinned at me and said, ‘Mother, you just need to choose to make the best of it, and put a smile on……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 85
When days like today occur, I am grateful for the previously banked home-schooling hours. Today was a wash-out as far as educating the children went! Very little was done. Not because I had planned it that way, but because sometimes life throws you a curve ball, and all else falls by the wayside. I did……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 84
Today started yesterday. For some bizarre reason, Becca wanted to get a head start on her workbooks Sunday night. This week the girls are finishing up their current set of six workbooks and doing the tests for each before moving on to the next set next week. As Becca hates having all her tests on……
Astronomy Unit Study: Unit 13 – Stars and the Kuiper Belt
The last post for our astronomy unit! This week we learnt all about the Stars and the Kuiper Belt. Stars and the Kuiper Belt: Reading and Note Taking I had the girls partnership read their way through the penultimate chapter: They wrote notes, trying to include all they remembered: Stars and the Kuiper Belt: Twinkling……
Art Lab for Kids: Anne O Smith Artist Study – Bird Walk Scribble Drawing
Anne O Smith Scribble Drawings: Introduction I am really loving Art Lab for Kids. It is so simple to use, takes very little time and the labs are interesting and unusual enough to capture the imagination of the girls. Art Lab 3 is about scribble drawings. It is fascinating to see recognisable pictures take shape……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 78
Wow! What a day! I wish every day could be this wonder filled, and productive. I feel like super woman with many super children! Where to start? Lillie took Charlotte out last night at sun set to snap some photos for her final portrait photography. She is doing a set of four or five photos……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 77
The morning started as normal. Thomas was at work; Lillie was going into town for a first aid course for her work and Charlotte went over to mum’s house to be tested on her Latin vocab and grammar: The littles got a good start on their workbooks for the day: In fact, Becca managed to……
Homeschooling with MEL Science: Making Liquid Wires
Each Tuesday afternoon I get to spend time with my precious Abigail. Usually, we do some chemistry together from MEL Science. Abigail has a monthly subscription (her Christmas present this year). Last week we made Liquid Wires from her third MEL Chemistry box, all about zinc-carbon batteries. Liquid Wires: Preparation Always, the first thing Abigail does……
Homeschool Living Maths: Life of Fred – Edgewood
Yes, we are still using Life of Fred Maths, because the girls remember it! It’s that simple. That said, as they are also doing the ACE program in its entirety, it also means they are getting stacks of maths practice. Something they are not too enamoured by! The girls are resolutely and uncompromisingly not fans……