Author: G

  • Life skills and lazy days!

    Plan failure Another lazy day day at home today, with Small still feeling a bit rough, and Big starting to look a bit off-colour we cancelled our day of “Grandma school” a term left over from the lockdown days, where the girls would spend some time with Grandma (Part of our ‘Bubble’ – what a… Read more

  • Stampede by the sea, ED TED and surprise unicorns!

    Expect the unexpected Today I found myself face-to-face with a monster. Table of Contents Building a unicorn Being met, bleary eyed, first thing in the morning by this on your stairs…is quite something. Small picked this cardboard kit up in a charity shop yesterday and obviously decided to build the thing as soon as she… Read more

  • Education by Accident!

    Education by Accident!
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    Art, Board games and Rube Goldberg research – Heath Robinson Keeping it chill again today, we did some painting with the girls’ new watercolours, then headed over to a local board game cafe! The amount of education and development that can be discovered by accident while you’re just pootling about is amazing. Table of Contents… Read more

  • What can Home-Ed look like?

    What can Home-Ed look like?

    What can Home-Ed look like? What can Home-Ed look like? Whatever it needs to. After yesterday’s science marathon, it was back to “School” this morning. Big, as usual, has completed almost everything before I’ve even woken up. Small however, has been feeling ill since our Gladiator outing. Here’s what we got up to today…. Table… Read more

  • Applied Science – Momentum and Youtube

    Applied Science – Momentum and Youtube

    Sunday Science It’s Sunday. In the Easter holidays. And what has Big spent her time doing?Science. Table of Contents Applied Science Well, the other day when we cycled to Grandma’s house we got talking about Momentum. (There’s a really big hill in between us) As the girls haven’t been riding all that much, they were… Read more

  • Always look out for local free activities!

    Roman Festival Today was one of our two home education “Plan” days for this week. Our plan today was to attend a free local Roman festival in Dorchester. We are incredibly lucky in where we live, as there is a wealth of historical architecture around us. Maiden Castle– one of the largest and most complex… Read more

  • Easter holiday time

    Easter Activities This morning I have spent yet MORE time fighting with passwords to get all of the settings on Twinkl to work, having finally figured out the other day that although I had set up both learner accounts, (you need to go in and individually allow permissions for each section, which explains why they… Read more

  • Day 4: Tweaking our Home education timetable

    Thursday Thursday was supposed to be our first “Plan” day, but of course that quickly got swapped over for Small’s birthday, so today is technically our day 3 of learning. Although they’ve both done waaaay more work than I actually anticipated, as they’re just loving it so much, I’m having to literally drag them away… Read more

  • Recommended equipment for home educating in the UK

    Recommended equipment for home educating in the UK

    Recommended equipment for starting out in home education in the UK, from someone starting out in home education! Read more

  • Our day off educating. Birthday time and maths with meatballs!

    Home Educating on a birthday day – unintentional learning, and a lesson in flexibility. Maths with meatballs! Read more