Thu 7 June 2012

We read another chapter of Children of the New Forest, Ruby did a page of this KS3 maths, to give her a break from the big book. Fred did the first chapter of his new Teaching Textbooks maths.

The kids painted dracula teeth & blood dripping from their mouths, and then wondered why the insulation installer man was looking oddly at them!

Tuesday 6 June '12

Today we read chapter 3 of "The Children of the New Forest" (CONF).
And Ruby did the starter of chapter 2 of her GCSE maths book.
We received delivery of "Our Island History" and the Cartoon book of Modern History Part 2.
Plan:
I will make a map of the area mentioned in conf, and we will read the chapter of OIH that pertains to the conf.
We also took delivery of Fred's Maths: Teaching textbooks 5, but it needs a DVD rom drive, so i ordered one from Amazon. Can begin maths as soon as it gets here!

what do we do?

I've found it too hard to separate what's education and what isn't for the purposes of recording on this blog, so I just didn't bother writing anything! So for the moment I'll just be using my cheerfulmum.blogspot.com.

Titanic at the Maritime Museum

It was wonderful to meet up with "CHEF" Christian Home Educators Fellowship i.e. 3 other mums, a dad, & approx 12 other home ed kids to have packed lunch on the Albert Dock and then into the Maritime Museum for a history lesson with Dave, who presented a live action retelling of the fateful night 100 years ago, using us as the actors. There were plenty of artefacts to interact with, and we learned a bit about the construction of the ship, jobs involved, real-life people, a bit of sociology & philosophy thrown in!
It was surprisingly informative for one hour, and I believe the fun way it was presented will help the info stick in our minds.

Also, I sent Robin's deregistration letter into school today. Thurs 19 April will be her last day.

the theme for this term!

The theme for this term up to Easter is "How much God loves me!"
So first thing, we are having a little bible study & prayers to prepare us for the day: planning what we will do each day, what we know about the Lord, and how it affects how we are going to behave.
I have a lot more patience with the boys when we are not rushing, last-minute trying to remember what I was supposed to bring....etc... and they are calmer and more willing to obey too. YAY!

Mon 19 March 2012
We did behaviour - getting on together. Also how we need to act differently among the elderly.
Cycling.

Tue 20 March
We did a little maths test to see what needs teaching.
Also did some spanish pronunciation.
I read a Mrs Pepperpot story.
Cycling.

cycling

Today the boys and I cycled approx 16 miles, along the Loop line to Sainsbury's East Prescott Road, where we had lunch. It took about 80 mins each way. We saw squirrels, bees & a robin as well as plenty of nesting birds.
We did a bit of maths working out how fast we were cycling (6mph).