It’s Sunday afternoon, the children are playing Minecraft while I plan for the week ahead. This week we will be home educating in our ‘new classroom’ (I bought some desks & storage for the playroom) and we’re all excited for our new learning environment. I’m aware that I didn’t write a blog last week and I need to write one today, but I can’t think … Continue reading What’s the point?
Last week was Children’s Mental Health Week in the UK, the theme was ‘Express Yourself’ but it also got me thinking about well being for children and what that looks like, which is why our theme for Valentine’s Day 2021 will be ‘Love Yourself’. I hope today’s blog will inspire you to have a great Valentine’s Day with your children. Valentine’s Day for kids? Growing … Continue reading Valentine’s Day – Love Yourself (Kids)
After what felt like a lifetime (I’m convinced January is actually the longest month of the year!), it’s finally February! 2021 might not be the year we hoped for, but for us it’s gotten off to a pretty great start. Goal-setting and vision boards have definitely kept all of us on track through this first month of the new year and hopefully sets out how … Continue reading January Highlights: Looking back to look forward
How I created the role of ‘birthday helper’ and unwittingly taught my boys how to share the mental load. Continue reading The Birthday Helper: teaching boys to share the mental load as men
A question I often get is how I plan my topics and how I educate my children with their different ages/abilities. So this is a step-by-step guide to my planning process, complete with examples from our current topic: festivals & cultural celebrations, and an explanation on how I make it work for a ‘would be’ Year 1 child and a ‘would be’ Year 3 child. … Continue reading Topic: Festivals & Cultural Celebrations
What a week 2021 has been! Just when you think things are going smoothly all hell breaks loose and everything has changed before you can even say “Happy New Year!”. In true 2021 fashion, this blog was meant to be something completely different to what it is now. I was originally going to write (type?) about our education planning for the new academic year to … Continue reading Vision Boards for Kids
It’s a new year, which is the perfect time to talk about realistic goal-setting with your children. There’s also a global pandemic going on, so realistic is key. 2020 brought a lot of change, our children were thrown into a world of uncertainty which required a certain amount of resilience. It allowed many of us to value the importance of family connections and maintaining our … Continue reading New Year’s Resolutions with Children
We finished our Christmas topic this week, so I’m spending my evening putting all the work together into a little project book for each of the children. For a semi-structured, mornings only Home Ed family it’s surprising how much ‘work’ we have actually done over the last three weeks! We spent the weekend celebrating the ‘end of term’ with a disco and a mini Christmas … Continue reading Christmas 2020: Homemade Gifts
If you read our blog Christmas 2020: Traditions & OT, you’ll know that we watched Jingle Jangle and Santa et Cie last week. In true (my) home ed style I had the children write film reviews for each one. This blog is a fun opportunity for the children to practice their typing skills and encourage them to think about the things we watch. While they … Continue reading Christmas 2020: Jingle Jangle & Santa et Cie [Film Reviews]
