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Month: March 2011

New Homeschool Curriculum

New Homeschool Curriculum

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Today we began a new curriculum that taught us an amazing amount in a relatively short (3 hour) period.  It is a cross disciplinary curriculum that embraces visual, kinesthetic and auditory learning styles allowing students to use manipulatives and their own reasoning skills to decode problems and create inventive scenarios. Today we explored… construction… teamwork, negotiation, ethics… personal responsibility (tidying belongings, respect for space) Geology & Biology peer to peer tutoring… numeracy… life skills (food preparation) coupled with an Al…

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Making Spring

Making Spring

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In lieu of actual spring ( it was -14C here yesterday) and the colours that it brings along with it, we have tried to create a little in our own home.  Some sweet treats, some coloured paints to celebrate the equinox.  It’s not much but it is keeping us going while we wait. The temperatures are set to rise this week, hopefully giving us the chance to tumble outside and enjoy some fresh air and sunshine.  The boys both have spring…

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A Single Moment

A Single Moment

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Joining Amanda in this Friday ritual. A single photo capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment to pause, savour and remember. If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link in the comments, I’d love to see what you’ve been up to! Wishing Spring weather for everyone this weekend!

Wanting more?

Wanting more?

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An ex-pupil of mine got in touch with me today on Facebook, a lovely lad I taught some A-level English to.  Good understanding of poetic form and  character, lovely handwriting.  He’s now living in New York working for Prada.  Seriously.  I can’t tell you how exciting it is to get news like this and not just because I am able to in some way take credit despite having no more contribution to his life success than a solid understanding of…

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Ostara Rising

Ostara Rising

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Normally we would be tucking the kids into bed at this time but instead we bundled them up into their warm clothes and off we went.  We drove, literally, into the sunset (well we were going west but we could certainly see the sunset) as we headed off to our land.  Twilight was falling around us as we stomped onto our fields, finding the going easy in comparison to our last visits when the snow was knee deep in many…

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A Single Moment

A Single Moment

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Joining Amanda at Soulemama for this week’s special, ordinary, wonderful moment.  Something to savour and remember.     Wishing everyone a happy weekend with lots of chances to get outside!

Outside

Outside

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Yesterday was glorious and truly felt like winter is on the wane.  We were in the fresh air for most of the day basking in the bright sunshine, we came home with red cheeks and lungs filled with outside. I’m looking forward to many more days shared with friends under blue, blue skies.

Happy 2nd Birthday

Happy 2nd Birthday

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It has been two years since this little bean slipped peacefully into the world.  His birth, like his life, has been defined by inexorable progress all made at his own speed.  Mostly far too quick for my liking!  This little one who is now not so little and yet very little at the same time.  Today some of my lovely friends came together with us to celebrate this special little person.  This boy who is, at all times, his own…

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Spit and Polish

Spit and Polish

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I’ve been thinking a lot in these last weeks about our daily routine, there have been elements that work and some that don’t.  One of the things I’ve struggled with is getting in a bit of a ‘project’ once or twice a week.  Finally, this week, I seemed to have settled on a rhythm that worked well.  Around 2pm seems to be a good time for us to get ourselves into the kitchen and over a bit of an awkward…

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Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday

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I don’t know what kind of Tuesday it is where you are, but in the hearts and minds of all true blue Brits this is a special day.  Shrove Tuesday.  Also known as Pancake Day.  Traditionally this is the day when families use up their eggs, milk and flour in preparation for the fasting of Lent.  But as we are big fat heathens we just opt for the pancake part and leave the rest to those more virtuous. I am…

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