It felt like a singularly unproductive day today! The littles, having got out of bed early every day last week, lay in until 730 this morning. It must have been first week back enthusiasm, which has waned somewhat this week! There was also lots of chores to do from the weekend, which the older girls……
Category: Homeschooling
Mystery of History: Lesson Ten – Stonehenge
We did our Stonehenge lesson over a couple of weeks, as we had never covered it before and I wanted to learn a bit more about it! I found an excellent couple of story books which describe different aspects of Stonehenge. They were my starting point to lots of lovely hands on activities 🙂 Stonehenge:……
How to Make Historical Clothing for Dolls: Stonehenge Fashion
As we go through our Mystery of History studies, I will be making historical clothing for the girls’ dolls as and when I have time. The girls still enjoy playing with their dolls, especially dressing and undressing them 🙂 I couldn’t find a male doll so I massacred one of the girl dolls which now……
Homeschool Living Maths: Life of Fred – Dogs
Learning Maths with Life of Fred: Dogs Since I have learnt how to create my own work sheets, Life of Fred maths is getting even better 🙂 We have just finished Life of Fred: Dogs, book four in a ten book series of elementary maths, based on a little boy named Fred (you can buy……
A Year in the Life of a Homeschooling Family: Day 5
I woke in a really bad mood today. It’s rare but when it happens it’s not a pretty sight. I had been up until one sewing some Minoan doll costumes for the girls to dye today, so I was tired and stiff. I made a coffee and went back to bed for five minutes to……
A Year in the Life of a Homeschooling Family: Day 4
Brr, it was Baltic today! So much so that we all wanted to spend the day in our warm beds. The thought did flicker through my mind, but after mentally visualising the reality of painting pottery and making a mummy whilst still languishing in bed, I decided getting up seemed the more sensible option. This……
A Year in the Life of a Homeschooling Family: Day 3
Having been awake for most of the night with a nasty migraine I was very grateful that Gary had a day off today. He works six days on and two days off, which is wonderful because he does actually get days off now, unlike at his last work where he seemed to work seven days……
A Year in the Life of a Homeschooling Family: Day 2
Y’know that shampoo ad which says repeat and rinse? Well, that pretty much describes my early morning fumblings. My phone read ‘3 missed alarms’. Really, I need say no more. Yesterday I did at least know that I missed them. I mean, I actually heard them. Today, not so much. Thankfully, Abs and Becs were……
A Year in the Life of a Homeschool Family: Day 1
Last year I had very little time to write, and as a result we have no record of all the wonderful things we did either in our homeschool or just together having fun. Sooooo, with that in mind I have decided that the easiest way for me is to blog about the day at night……
A Man and his Van
Nothing Much Changes…
My younger girls have been doing some science experiments lately. We bought Abigail a subscription to two science boxes for Christmas. Each month she will receive one box from Curiosity Box and another from MEL Science. The Curiosity Box contains about four experiments in it, with instructions and everything one needs to carry them out.……
Christmas Angels
My Christmas present from Becca was a Christmas angel: She wrapped it up very carefully in tissue paper and included a tiny bottle of fairy dust. Becca and I are very close. She is a mummy’s girl through and through. Yesterday, we packed away all the Christmas stuff: decorations, the Christmas tree, the Jesse tree,……
A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That
As the last day of our Christmas holidays draws in, everyone is trying to make the most of the free time they have before school starts one more time. Thomas is watching podcasts on music production and how to get his own music ‘out there’, at the same time as working hard to earn enough……
Learning Latin Lesson 1a: Nominative Case
Soooo, I’m learning Latin. With Charlotte. And it is very hard. I have, rather dubiously, decided to take a Latin GCSE with Charlotte next summer. We paid for her to take a course, and whilst the course was incredibly well thought out, somewhere along the line Charlotte got lost. You kinda have to fully understand……
Happy New Year!!
I have high hopes for this year. The latter part of 2018 was all about going back to our roots: prioritising family; saying no to more things; being more protective over the time we spend together as a family; keeping it simple with school work and reintroducing all the great habits which were lost due……