Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Friday, 13 November 2009
Reassuring myself...
... I think its the climate, no not the weather but the political climate. I pretend it doesn't really have any relevance to our daily life, but it does, in a sneaky sinister unspoken way.
I have been worrying that we are achieving very little. We seem to socialise an awful lot, but education? Nope none of that happening here!
So, I took stock.
Since September 2009:
LA has taught herself to read - really read, not that faltering monotonous reading that 5 years olds often adopt for their adults, but real reading with tone and emotion, both loudly and silently.
She is working on writing - but has little interest at the moment. Well, no that's not true - she will eagerly write memos and lists.
We have explored the Stone Age using books, games, videos and visits.
We have looked at Evolution, the big bang, and various religions.
We have been to Spain and learnt a little Spanish and about air travel.
LA has been able to label all the continents and many (15) countries on our big map of the world and is able to identify these countries on different maps.
She continues to work eagerly with numbers. I'd find this difficult to describe in more detail, because she does bits and bobs of lots of different maths topics, addition, subtraction, times tables, shape, time, measuring ...
We have learnt about Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder and fireworks.
She has learnt to swim 5 metres.
As well as all the usual crafts, cooking, shopping, playing etc etc etc.
I'm feeling better now. We've done quite a lot in 2 months. I'll stop worrying.
I have been worrying that we are achieving very little. We seem to socialise an awful lot, but education? Nope none of that happening here!
So, I took stock.
Since September 2009:
LA has taught herself to read - really read, not that faltering monotonous reading that 5 years olds often adopt for their adults, but real reading with tone and emotion, both loudly and silently.
She is working on writing - but has little interest at the moment. Well, no that's not true - she will eagerly write memos and lists.
We have explored the Stone Age using books, games, videos and visits.
We have looked at Evolution, the big bang, and various religions.
We have been to Spain and learnt a little Spanish and about air travel.
LA has been able to label all the continents and many (15) countries on our big map of the world and is able to identify these countries on different maps.
She continues to work eagerly with numbers. I'd find this difficult to describe in more detail, because she does bits and bobs of lots of different maths topics, addition, subtraction, times tables, shape, time, measuring ...
We have learnt about Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder and fireworks.
She has learnt to swim 5 metres.
As well as all the usual crafts, cooking, shopping, playing etc etc etc.
I'm feeling better now. We've done quite a lot in 2 months. I'll stop worrying.
Monday, 9 November 2009
Still here...
... just a little busy.
We had a lovely time at Twin Lakes with friends last week, they have free pumpkin carving available in the run up to Halloween so we came home smelling of pumpkins.
Then we went to the best party EVER! A halloween party organised by some Home Ed friends. Wow, what a party - a magician, dancing, McDonalds, Pizza, Icecream, Fireworks, and Lanterns! We came home very happy but very knackered. Eoin and Emma - you definately get the award for best party of the year!
On Saturday we went to see the Firework display at Abbey Park. A beautiful evening and as always a brilliant fireworks display.
We had a lovely time at Twin Lakes with friends last week, they have free pumpkin carving available in the run up to Halloween so we came home smelling of pumpkins.
Then we went to the best party EVER! A halloween party organised by some Home Ed friends. Wow, what a party - a magician, dancing, McDonalds, Pizza, Icecream, Fireworks, and Lanterns! We came home very happy but very knackered. Eoin and Emma - you definately get the award for best party of the year!
On Saturday we went to see the Firework display at Abbey Park. A beautiful evening and as always a brilliant fireworks display.
LA has continued to exceed all my expectations (child number 3 - why do I have expectations???) in her reading ability. She is now on the (dreadful) Rainbow Fairy books and has read the first 4 books in the last 3 weeks. She really enjoys them, so we're going along with it, but the stories are awful! Any recommendations for a 5 year old would be very welcome!
Its still not so easy to get her to write, but we're not pushing this, I'm sure the time will come.
She now has her own website - its a blog on which I have listed lots of sites that I feel are relevant for the week ahead - she loves the independence of being able to go to the computer and get on with it, so its working well.
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