Tag: Home-ed

  • May Fairs past and present!

    May Fairs past and present!

    Actual May fair, A second very welcome extended break from school this week- in the form of another May bank holiday- which brought us just the opportunity we were wanting!  May Fair at the Community Orchard   Having scoured the local facebook pages for any sight or sound of a May Pole (what is wrong… Read more

  • Eggardon Hillfort and back to school stressbusting!

    Hillforts and hiccups. And thus the actual first day back at school arrives, complete with a morning of stomach aches, sore throats and tears; and then eventually getting out of the door just in time. After school we decided to go for a last minute jolly up to Eggardon Hillfort. It’s one of our favourite… Read more

  • Malory towers, May fairs, Cake cost maths and the chance for a FREE download!

    Malory Towers and May fairs. Now I’m incapable of watching TV without also doing something else; so I set myself to some work on the laptop while we powered through a good amount of Malory Towers this morning; making the most of sick day number 2. I was never into Enid Blyton as a kid,… Read more

  • The first day NOT back to school and spider seedlings!

    The first day NOT back to school and spider seedlings!

    Back to school….or not! Tuesday. 5am. The first day back to school…. and the girls start the day by puking. A lot. Now by the schools own rules -they can’t go back for another two days from the time they stop vomiting. Sick day While idling the morning away to OKGO! videos, I overheard the… Read more

  • So, how did we find our Home Education trial?

    So how did it go? How did our Home Education trial go? Actually, brilliantly. I’m completely aware that a two-week trial is by no means anywhere close to the reality of Home Education, on so many levels. However, what it did do is give us a good overview and highlight a few things that could… Read more

  • 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