Home-schooling a science theme through the ages
I lead a preschool group at our church called Junior Jivers. It was a big decision for me to take it on, bearing in mind I have four children tagging along with me wherever I go. Four children for...
View ArticleAfrica so far
To get into the African groove I decided, before we got into any serious learning per se, to YouTube Africa Dance. This led to a brilliant morning of walking, or shall we say dancing, in somebody...
View ArticleThis Summer the Rain Came down.
For the last gazillion years life in Australia has been all about water restrictions. Dry parched earth, dust storms that blanketed the whole east coast and farm land reduced to a dismal homage to the...
View Articlekids do/are…
We have been creating a few mind maps lately. I think the last one I set up asked them to think about Olympic medals. I walked back into the school room after lunch yesterday to find they had made...
View ArticleBook Week 2012
My kids adore dressing up, in fact my son has spent more days embodying a fictitious character than being Eli. Although I find his ability to get through life with an Omnitrix full of characters he...
View ArticleExploring India: Yoga
We have moved to Asia in our travelling around the globe studies. We are starting with India because it matches up nicely with the chapter that we are up to in our history book, The Story Of The...
View ArticleWhat I meant to write about the Olympics but didn't because I was sick.
The kids, with freaky glow in the dark eyes, waking up up early to watch the Olympic opening ceremony. As we really aren’t all that sporty in this house I thought that the kids would be keen to watch...
View ArticleParramasala
Lani has recently noticed that other families take nicely posed group shots when they go anywhere special. This is our best out of four taken at the south east Asian festival Parramasala. Eli point...
View ArticleHomeschool excursion following in Abraham Soloman’s train carriages.
As a way of learning about Australia’s past we have been focusing on a new painting each week that depicts a moment in the evolution of our country. This week’s painting was Second Class: A Parting by...
View ArticleHey go write a blog post you’ve had a year
so here we go……………………………….hey you know what, a years worth of thoughts is hard to get down on the page, or screen or what ever we call it nowadays (note to self if you’re going to keep claiming to be...
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