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Tag: Home-ed
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Breaktime from van adventures
“Breaktime” Having woken up for the second time in Exmoor, next to a gorgeous river, the girls and I had a little al fresco breakfast paddle – with a friendly duck (who was having a well-earned nap) with its duckling frolicking about in the shallows – and then headed back to the pub to do… Read more
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A New Van Adventure
Well. To explain today I’m going to have to go back a step or two. To just over three weeks ago, when my work van died; and I made one of those split-second decisions that changes your life completely. Table of Contents Van Adventure begins Two days before, while we were driving through the stunning… Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Education by Accident!
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