IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS...

Today is one of those days that remind me why I love home schooling so much. Did we get loads done? Did we make some great arts and crafts design? Did we cover a project in great detail? Nope! In fact we hardly done a thing!! Last night baby I decided that we should stay awake all night, so this morning at 9am when we were due to begin our lessons, we were in fact all fast asleep, and we stayed that way until gone 10am. Time we all got up, had breakfast and got washed and dressed the morning had passed and it was time to pray. At first mini panic set in that we had not followed our schedule and that my careful planning had all gone wrong. But then I reminded myself that as a home schooling family we are not tied to such timetables, and although it is nice to have them and have some kind of schedule to follow, it is OK to just go with the flow at times, and so that is exactly what we done. The children done some work in their Maths and English work books (yes the work books I said we were not going to use), then we discussed all the different ways we can collect and display data. A asked if we can go to the park when it is a little warmer and use our magnifying glasses (Jazmin these are the ones that came with your books, so a big thank you!!) to see the insects and bugs up close. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity for a maths lesson and to put into practise collecting and displaying data. So as I type the children are sat designing their bar charts all ready for our trip to the park.

I used a wonderful little booklet to explain all about data handling and the children liked being about to see the different ways in which it can be done.

This booklet, as well as others on different subjects can be purchased at: Daydream Education

Home schooling is not about turning our home into a school, it is simply a relaxed way of learning and getting a good education whilst being at home (or the supermarket, park, doctors etc, you name it, we learn there). Today was just as much a day of learning as any other, and although we never done a whole heap of work, we still learnt a thing or two, and that at the end of the day is why we chose to take the home schooling path to begin with :-)