This is the post I usually use to document all the stuff that went on outside of school learning, only this week I took absolutely no photos. Can you believe it? I'm not sure that has ever happened before. I think I've been a bit preoccupied by my follow up post to Saturday's post 'Addicted,…
Category: Precious Moments
Precious Moments
We began back at school full throttle this week and it has gone very well. Everyone has done maths each morning for an hour, with C12 and L12 both scoring high on their end of topic tests. A6 continues to read with mum. She will start some copy work over there as well. A6 has…
Precious Moments this Week
Sometimes life sends you along a week which makes you realise how blessed you are just to be alive to experience such a week. The last few days have been like that for us. We have been in a half holiday, half back at school week, the sun has been shining, the children have been…
Precious Memories
I've got a rather eclectic collection of photos this week. It has been such a good week. Peace has descended on our homeschool as we transition back to what works for us and away from unschooling. It has done us good to get unschooling out of our system. I know without doubt now that it…
Precious Moments: Unschooling Week
This week has flown on by and in general it has been wonderful. T12 completely took our chat to heart and worked really hard to keep to his schedule. He managed it every day and has, quite rightly, felt completely chuffed with himself. However, having had a week of self scheduling as well as time…
Precious Moments: A Superduper Week!
We are a family who likes to be busy and when we are busy all is well in our camp. And this week has been super busy which has lead to a super week! This was a schooling week (as opposed to an unschooling week) and we finished everything I had planned. The older children…
Precious Moments – Unschooling
This week has been peppered with bad days and illness and very little has been achieved. I was going to write yesterday about new thoughts I had concerning our unschooling weeks but to be honest I really didn't think it would be a fair reflection. However, I will say this - leaving the children completely to…
Precious Moments: Week Five – Schooling
Our second week of full-time schooling (as opposed to unschooling) and we have fitted a lot in. There seems to have been much cuddling this week, the reason for which is unclear: B2 hasn't been in great form, with teeth coming through but she need not fear because she has her big sister A6 to…
Precious Memories: Week 4 – Unschooling
This week saw our first unschooling week in. We are currently alternating schooling with unschooling to allow the children time. Time to be children; time to explore; time to focus on their gifts and time to discover the person they were born to be. In general it has been a really productive week, although screen…
Precious Memories Week Three
Remember how we were going to do one week of schooling, followed by one week of unschooling? This was our first week back and boy have we been busy! My goal is to work the children really hard for one week, and then follow it by a week of pure, adult free, hands off interest…
Precious Moments 2015: Week 1
Last week, as we were preparing for guests I asked my rather changeable three year old if she would be behaving herself today. She looked at me with a genuinely thoughtful expression on her face, raised an eyebrow and shrugged her shoulders, both hands in the air, as she replied, 'Mmm, maybe!'. I grinned, she…
Precious Memories
Over the weekend the girls and Thomas had no less than three birthday celebrations to attend. For one of the parties the girls had to dress up as a favourite character in a film. Putting the dress-up we bought for the medieval festival to good use, C12 dressed up as Hero from Shakespeare's Much Ado…
Precious Memories
This week has been a funny old week with me recovering (really well) from the surgery but sleeping waaaay more hours than I think I have ever slept in my life! I had decided on a couple of weeks of light school which worked for all of about 5 minutes and then we had attitudes…
Precious Memories
So, last Saturday we went aboard the ferry home, crossing from Belfast to Liverpool overnight. Gary slept with the older ones in a cabin, I slept with the littles in another cabin. It was a stormy night, which the little ones slept dead to the world the whole way through. Unlike their mother and…
Precious Moments
Apologies if this was posted twice or you received duplicate copies. When I posted it the first time it came up with a 2nd September date, which was wrong. So I reposted. With the correct date. I hope. Not sure though....don't really know what I'm doing half the time! This week started off with a bang…