Creating and Educating

I have finally finished the planning for 2014. As usual we have lots to keep us busy, many trips to go on and plenty of projects to undertak...

If you've been reading lately you'll have seen that we have been travelling across New South Wales and Victoria on a camping trip. S...

It's that time again to plan the next few weeks work. As I got a little carried away for term 2 (and we had lots and lots of organised...

Well it's that time again; planning for the next 10 weeks of home-education. This coming term we have lots of great excursions put on fo...

Today I have been rearranging the learning space to add in some project tables. I have one area where I have set up books associated with ...

I have just about completed my planning for 2013. First I came up with learning objectives for each subject area; by this I mean what I want...

This week we began working on projects. The children are free to choose what they would like to study. First we brainstormed ways in which w...

We had our registration meeting today with Alison from the NSW board of studies. Thankfully the children were behaving as she arrived. She t...

The schools go back tomorrow for term 3 - thank goodness we won't have to put up with school kids crowding everywhere for a while. We ha...

The term is coming to an end and before I begin planning the next one I thought I'd look back over our successes and failures for this t...

Are there 7 days in a week? We no, not in this household! With Dad doing shift work, 3 days on and 3 off, our weeks are 6 days long. In the ...

I have spent the last week writing up my planning for 2012. We will be inspected this year as R turns "school age", so I want to h...

I've been thinking recently about the different styles of home education and which one, or combination, is right for our family. Some ho...

Its the "school holidays" and I'm NOT planning next terms work. In fact we have got a large amount of this term's work don...

I have just discovered the website  pinterest.com . This is a great website if you remember things visually like I do. You know how it goe...

I've been rather quite lately due to us moving home. We have finally bought a place in Australia. Despite the exchange rate on the pound...

Well I have spent several hours planning our activities for term 3. Last term we had a Geography focus so this term we are going to focus on...

The children (R in particular) constantly like to know what's coming next, what we are going to do, where we are going to go. I have wan...

I made R a mini office to use when he is working on English projects.  English mini office Its made from 2 file folders joined tog...

I'm finding the room rearrangement and the accessibility of materials has led to lots of independent maths and English play. The childre...