The days are a little milder so I started by forcing her to walk more. I’m not sure why she hates it so much – I don’t remember hating it but I had no choice: we often had no car and my parents refused to get the bus so… Anyway: the weekly routine is: Monday:… Read More
At the Alphonse Mucha exhibition in Glasgow – she was singularly unimpressed by the beautiful drawings and engravings but did a few sketches of her own, which I am not to share on here. The dolls have become very popular so of course, there was a doll picnic or two. She uses a German bone… Read More
Christmas and New Year were official homeschool holidays. I did some quick sewing, knitted a birthday gift for a January person (and developed painful RSI), and we did our best to keep the excitement to manageable levels. K finds it hard to focus on anything else if a big event is coming so it would… Read More
After we stopped doing FiaR for the last month of the year, it got harder to post weekly and keep on track. Things we discovered: Life of Fred Skillshare Daily hugs
After last week’s challenges, I decided that we needed a big change. K has gotten into the habit of waking at about 4 or 5 and then hogging the iPad until 7, when she will often swap it for TV. I know. Over the past two weeks we noticed a big deterioration in her concentration… Read More
Monday After a very mixed up weekend with some late nights, we had a later than usual wake up call at 7:30. Although we agreed to go to Church, I was very pleased that the Liturgy didn’t start til 10:30, as we were going to try and do something before then and maybe walk. I… Read More
No doubt the best thing about homeschooling is that if, for example, your child sleeps til 3am then has a nightmare and is up from 5 but is completely exhausted by 9, you can adapt the day… a lot. Monday Instead of church, we read through the book carefully – it’s a beautiful story and… Read More
This week K chose to study dogs, in general. Thankfully I had bought the unit study from Amanda Bennet’s site a few years ago. It is very North American focused but there is enough to allow it to be adapted easily for Scotland. It’s a huge resource and you DO need to use a computer… Read More
This week we began homeschool again after the half term break. A few years ago we bought all the Five in a Row books and curriculum guide 1 and 2, so it made sense to use these as a good introduction. We also signed up for IXL Maths and English as a trial to see… Read More
This week K chose to look at a book by Alexander McCall Smith, more famous for his books on the Number One Ladies Detective Agency set in Botswana and also the 44 Scotland Street series, set here in Edinburgh and starring the precocious Bertie and his dreadful mother amongst others. School Ship Tobermory is a… Read More