Autumn Wall

Autumn Wall

We have recently put up two craft walls. This is the Autumn wall. Kasey-Ray has done this all herself. She created the tree, correctly named the leaves, searched for Autumn facts and images, as well as creating two poems.

Here are three pictures of the progress.

Reading list

I have set up a reading list for this school year. Every time a book is read, my daughter will write a review in her workbook. All books will then be wrote about on World Book Day.

Here is our list:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Northern Lights: His Dark Materials 1 by Philip Pullman
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis
Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Chocolate Flower Pots

Chocolate Flower Pots

My daughter loves baking. We had this idea to create chocolate flower pots using brownie mix, cornflakes, Galaxy chocolate and fondant.

The main soil is brownie mix. One top of that, she wanted a loose soil effect so created chocolate cornflakes and added them on top.

The flowers were originally cake pops but when she tried to apply fondant they slipped down the stick, holding the cake pop, so we decided to just put it on top.

I think they look really good and my kids love them. I am going to try one today.

Book haul

This year would have been my daughter's first year at high school. Instead we are homeschooling.
She is eleven and whilst she excels in some aspects she does struggle in things like Maths. We are still in the process of unschooling her, as she still has a lot of bad habits, picked up from main school.
There is no rush, when it comes to homeschooling. You do things at your child's ability and speed. We try and include Maths sum in the things she loves like baking.
Among downloaded school work, we like to also work from texts books, and the following images are just some of the books we have recently purchased:

People often want to talk to me about homeschooling. They have it in their mind that people are either hippy types - which I most definitely aren't - or are very intelligent. Let me tell you, there are lots of resources out there to help you.

We have been homeschooling since April 2017 and we are still learning what works best for our child. There is no right or wrong way.