http://seeingwithneweyes.homeschooljournal.net Discovering together Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:32:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A good friend of mine has recently decided not to send her children back to school next week and to start on the HE journey instead.  Naturally we've been corresponding a fair amount by email - I've only met her a handful of times IRL, but she's stayed with us ... http://seeingwithneweyes.homeschooljournal.net/2008/09/01/does-he-make-families-more-relaxed/ So, I'm 37+ weeks pregnant now.  I can't have the baby until after next Tuesday as I'm co-facilitating an antenatal course with an antenatal teacher friend over the weekend and on Tuesday evening so can't really enjoy what I experienced this evening...my first run of contractions All my births have ... http://seeingwithneweyes.homeschooljournal.net/2008/08/20/the-beginning-of-the-end/ It appears that some publishing houses are planning on putting age-bands on children's books.  Read this post at Making It Up and sign up to a campaign against it if you feel the same way I (and many, many others do!). http://seeingwithneweyes.homeschooljournal.net/2008/08/19/age-banding-childrens-books/ As most readers of Seeing With New Eyes will know, we don't have any educational structure at all in our house, and only a very loose daily pattern that we tend to follow to keep me sane, and even this is subject to huge amounts of flexibility and change.  So ... http://seeingwithneweyes.homeschooljournal.net/2008/08/17/autonomous-learning-over-the-last-couple-of-days/ At the moment, the LA seem to know nothing about us.  I know this because most of my friends, both HEing & schooling, got letters from the LA when it was the Autumn before their children would start reception year at school asking them which school their children would be ... http://seeingwithneweyes.homeschooljournal.net/2008/08/13/under-the-radar/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://seeingwithneweyes.homeschooljournal.net/2008/08/02/photos-2/ Thursday is the day my mum comes over and I go to work at the bf support group for two hours in the middle of the day.  Dad came too this week because it's school holidays (he works in a school) so he took me and picked me up.  Mum ... http://seeingwithneweyes.homeschooljournal.net/2008/08/02/thursday-and-friday/ We had expected a very boring day yesterday, having no car, but it turned out to be very full and fun.  Our crocs arrived very early and Flopsy put hers on straight away and has only taken them off for bed since!  Mopsy's not keen on hers - I think ... http://seeingwithneweyes.homeschooljournal.net/2008/07/31/crocs-and-street-theatre/ We haven't done much at all today.  I had a shift to work on the helpline from 9-10am and somehow, while I was upstairs hiding from the children in order to answer phone calls, DH managed to get all three dressed, breakfasted and suncreamed and I didn't hear any shouting!  I ... http://seeingwithneweyes.homeschooljournal.net/2008/07/29/dull-but-pleasant/ Since I was last blogging, Flopsy has become a pretty fluent reader.  We used the highly recommended 5 step reading scheme that many other HEors recommended to us.  It goes like this: 1. Read to them 2. Read to them 3. Read to them 4. Read to them 5. Read to them I'm aware she's ... http://seeingwithneweyes.homeschooljournal.net/2008/07/29/reading/