Tag Archives: Homeschooling
Book Week 2013
In term three all across Australia the children unite for one massive literature themed dress up party. Just as Halloween is America’s pretend you are someone that you are not … Continue reading
Hey go write a blog post you’ve had a year
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 Continue reading
Homeschool excursion following in Abraham Soloman’s train carriages.
Following the train artwork of Abraham Solomon Continue reading
Parramasala
The kids explore the South East Asian festival Parramasa Continue reading
What I meant to write about the Olympics but didn’t because I was sick.
The kids truly surprised me by showing such a great interest in watching the events, having to be dragged away from the TV at night and wanting it on as soon as they woke to see what had happened while they slept. Continue reading
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 Continue reading
Book Week 2012
Dress ups are a welcomed thrill around here so when Book Week turns up every year, home schoolers or not, we are going to that character parade Continue reading
kids do/are…
We’ve 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 their own Continue reading
The lessons Doctor Who is teaching my ASD kid
Eli is pretty obsessed with Doctor Who, in autistic terms it’s his special interest. Rather than fighting his desire to live in the Doctor’s universe I’ve chosen to dive in with him, it doesn’t hurt that the show is all shades of awesome. Continue reading
This Summer the Rain Came down.
For the last gazillion years life in Australia has been all about water restrictions, this year the rain came down. Continue reading