I’ve instituted Themed Thursdays as part of the “organise stuff to do so we don’t go crazy stuck inside over winter” push I’ve been on lately. The idea is, basically, to pick a topic and pull out books, toys and activities related to the topic. The first one we did was monsters, which was very successful and spilled across the next couple of days too. The second one was castles, which wasn’t as much of an ongoing success but was still fun.

Monster Day – craft

Monster Stew

Castle Day activities

Knights on the battlements

I do need to remember that all this preparation is just there to provide a framework so that when they get bored, there is something to do, rather than have the expectation that we will all sit round the table and work through all the stuff I’ve put out so I can take photos of our productive homeschooling experience. You’d think after 9 years of homeschooling I’d get that by now, but apparently not… This week we will be doing flower fairies.