I am ashamed to say that it took me so long (about a year) to get Jonathan to the Tae Kwon Do class he wanted to go to that it has changed venue and into a Karate class. However having finally got there he is enjoying it immensely and is very pleased with his new suit and [Continue]
We visited a space event at the Needles Battery yesterday – celebrating the 40th anniversary of a rocket launch from the IoW. Now this ticked two vital boxes for home educators 1. it was free 2. it was educational Unsurprisingly then we bumped into a number of our HEing friends at this event. One did [Continue]
We were inspired by the art projects website to make some patterned skulls. Jonathan did one on orange paper first. This was completed when we listened to How To Cheat A Dragon’s Curse read in the luscious Scottish tones of David Tennant. Ruth made bead things and I drew pumpkins using these lovely pastel things. He was unhappy with [Continue]
Since we came home from the holiday we’ve been spending lots and lots of time revising for the girls environmental management iGCSE. I say we meaning all of us. The girls have been working though past papers and Jonathan has had to be pretty much gagged to stop him answering all the questions. This has shown me once [Continue]
At Corfe we did a retelling of Roald Dhal’s The Twits. The idea is that you learn the gist of a chapter and retell that part so we get the whole story told by a variety of different people. This year our story tellers aged from about 4 up to – well I’m 39 and [Continue]
Ruth is part of a team of home educated kids called Manic Mechanics who are entering the Landrover 4×4 technology challenge. Last week they were in the regional finals in Reading. As you can see they must have been inspired by Willie Wonka’s Umpa Lumpa’s. They have been working for a few months on making their car, [Continue]
Our HE group was lucky enough to be invited to be guinea pigs for a new Estuary Explorers project. We were hoping to go along and learn all sorts of things about estuary birds and their habitats through activities and games. Jonathan and I were both feeling pretty yucky but decided we would go anyway. Ric (formally Ric the [Continue]
There is this maths site that I really like. It’s called Nrich and the main reason I like it is that it is full of puzzles. But we’ve not really used them at home. Why not? Well because we have preferred that maths develops alongside their normal life lived and not to teach it formally but to [Continue]
There will at some point be a longer post featuring this basket but really could there be a better example of a home educators basket. Please note the organic cheese, the (looking as if it was)home made bread, the vegan puddings, the felted purse, the colourful diablo, fruit and Suma peanut butter. Actually it could [Continue]
The Learning Zone had a variety show on Friday. A chance to show case the many talents the children, adults and families together have. We had stories, songs, circus activities, poems, music and some uncategorised. So follows a small sample of the amazing talent that is the Learning Zone Who will every forget that to get the [Continue]
