Well, this is hardly much of a record of our home ed journey is it? *blush*
Since it was the first week of term 3, pottery and German were not back yet, so we had a quiet day at home on Monday. K and B played in the garden and made a cubby house in the dungeon. They set up some paint on the deck and made foot-paintings on cardboard, then later on did some collage at the kitchen table. Mum came in and took both girls swimming at lunchtime, and H and I went to the post office and (briefly) to SVDP. I flung furniture around in the living room, and got pissed off at the amount of TV the girls were watching, so arranged it as to make it a lot harder to automatically watch when they got bored. We pretty much stuck to minimal TV watching during the day, and me turning my computer off as well, for the rest of the week. We got a postcard from California from the unschooling postcard swap group.
On Tuesday B got stuck into her workbooks again in the morning, and went out to the farm in the afternoon.
Wednesday she did the usual spread of work with Nannie, went riding, and came home excited about doing a research project on crocodiles, so sat at the computer taking notes. Dunno where that came from! K, H and I went to a JB meet in the morning, had lunch with E, and made another trip to the post office. B cooked tuna pasta for dinner (with some help from E) because H fell asleep on my lap just as I was about to get dinner on.
Thursday B worked on her crocodile project, did some more workbooks, and we made yet another trip to the post office! Grandmoogi visited in the morning then went to a meeting and came back in the afternoon and stayed for dinner. B watched the Catalyst show “Don’t Die Young”.
On Friday we went to Black Mountain Tower, then the Botanic Gardens, partly because I’d promised them we’d go to the tower ages ago, and partly so I could collect tourist brochures for the unschooling swap at JL. B went riding with Nannie in the afternoon. For a change, we did NOT have to go to the post office 😉 B went to cubs in the evening.
On Saturday morning, B and I went to the farmers’ markets in the morning, then Nannie took both girls out to the farm, where B rode Smoko (and came home literally bouncing with excitement that she had cantered and jumped with him) and K sat on Smoko, made friends with Sarah (2 year old neighbour) and went for a long walk with Pa. I went off to the mall, went to the bank and (you guessed it!) the post office, and bought some more beads. I started work on new suncatcher dangles, one of which is for the JL swap, and the other as yet unknown (but possibly destined for The Morrigan).
Tomorrow we have B’s tree-planting thing in the morning, and as yet no plans for the afternoon…
B seems to be reading her Futurama comic when she goes to bed, although she’s been getting up late so is presumably doing some reading in the mornings, too. I’m re-reading the Cadfael mystery “The Rose Rent”, since I have to do something with no computer and there’s only so much non-stop housework I can take. K is reading off letters from environmental print and asking all sorts of questions like “What does this word mean?” 😀 She’s also been playing with blocks and acting out little stories with them (eg. one was a dog and one was a person looking for her lost dog, who asked a talking tree which helped her find the dog, etc). And she has watched a couple of the lower primary shows like For the Juniors, Our Animals and Count Us In. B also watched a bit of schools TV, mostly BTN and science shows, and some shows in the evening like Spicks and Specks.