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Friday, February 06, 2009
A GOOD home ed day!
We seem to be settling into a good routine with the home ed at the moment. We are (shock, horror) using the National Curriculum but in a very hands-on way with lots of crafts and computer projects thrown in. Rosie seems to be absolutely thriving on it which is something I never thought I'd hear myself say!
Today was just one of those days that needs documenting! We got up, bright and early and settled down to breakfast of warm, homemade honey muffins (divine!).
Whilst doing so, we couldn't help but notice the school-kids in the alley way out back, slumped in their coats, fighting their way through the freezing sleet. Poor things :( Rather a stark contrast to my kids, tucked up safe and warm and dry indoors!
Then we got started on learning - April did some chalking on blackboard, played with play dough mats and built a pretend lizard house with her building blocks. Rosie did maths first - decimals - and we had one of those glorious "ah-ha!" moments where a lightbulb went on in her head and she finally got something that had been perplexing her for ages! English next - prefixes - all seemed a bit basic for her to me, her English skills are amazing, might have to skip on to a Year 7 book I think.
Then we did science, and this was fun. It was about the heart so she did some reading in her study book, worked through some questions and then went here and explored some interactive, 3d virtual models of various hearts (human, sheep, dog etc). Fascinating!
Finally, we did history - this isn't National Curriculum because we prefer to study history chronologically rather than hop about all over the place like a lost-in-space time traveller (as with the NC). So, this year, we're doing the Middle Ages and today we read about the different stages a boy has to go through to become a knight and then Rosie made this diorama (it's actually got 4 different sections although you can only see 2):
By the time we'd done all this, the sleet had turned to full-on snow (we now have loads of it again!) and Tim had got home from work. Rosie had got on to Google Earth so she and Tim spent ages looking at various world landmarks in 3d.
Lunch next - boiled eggs and dippy soldiers and yoghurt (not all on the same plate!) followed by more Google Earthing for Rosie and piecing together the Europe puzzle map for April.
Tim then went out and braved the elephants (snowing really hard!) to get some shopping and when he got back I got baking again - shortbread and cherry cake this time :)
Y'know I just wish EVERY day could be like this but that's life guess *laughs*. Today, everything went perfect - tomorrow will probably be a raving nightmare!
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