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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...

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Africa 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...

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This 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...

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kids 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...

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Book 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...

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Exploring 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...

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What 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...

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Parramasala

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...

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Homeschool 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...

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Hey 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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