Ruth is doing IGCSE Chemistry – aiming to sit it next January.  She prefers working with some others so we have teamed up with Sam and Albie to work through it and some others are joining in as well. We’re approaching it in a different way to other exams – Maths was weekly tutorials and [Continue]

We’ve done a bit more science over the last few days too. Just some observations of celery and food dye. The inside of some celery that has been in the food dye. And the inside of some that hasn’t been in the food dye. Jonathan also made some lovely gloop.  You need real borax for [Continue]

So Jonathan really enjoys science and Ruth fancies having a go at Chemistry and Biology international GCSEs over the next year or so which has meant we’ve been thinking about science activities a lot recently.  We’ve started doing a few more science demonstrations so that Jonathan can enjoy them and Ruth can learn something! So [Continue]

A few of us met up to do some science this afternoon.  The theme was Levers and Pulleys.  Having nothing to contribute to the levers and pulleys theme, and having recently rediscovered a container of real borax, I took gloop making ingredients.   So we met up in a garden and had a good play.    Clever [Continue]

A couple of weeks ago we had a lovely trip to Winchester.  We started off with a load of friends on the Ferry.   The teens and some of the braver adults walked from Southampton to Winchester while the rest of us went to spent the day experimenting at INTECH.  We were delighted to unexpectedly meet up [Continue]

FUNGI – yes I am shouting it’s what you do on one of Sue Bailey’s fungi walks. You look around find some fungi Yell “fungi” at the top of your voice and a crowd comes running and Sue tells us what it is we’ve found. We didn’t find an awful lot at Parkhurst. Then as [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]

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]

One of the lovely mums from our HE group runs a science group once a month using the Crest Investigators materials. We’ve built bridges and tested whether toast really does land butter side down.  The investigation this time was to build a raft and then see how many Jenga blocks we could load on to [Continue]

Now if I think you can learn quite a bit with a cardboard box then I think you can learn just about anything with food. Jonathan and I were participating in one of our favourite guilty pleasures (watching cookery programs)and were enjoying the Hairy Bikers one afternoon.  One of the recipes they made was a Swiss roll, [Continue]