Another busy week - I think I'm going to stop saying this as every week seems to be the same!
Monday we met 2 lovely home educated families who were really helpful answering my many questions. Alanna loved playing in the garden with the toys, play house and chickens! Wish we had room for some!
We then went swimming with friends and have never known a pool so empty. For the last half hour we had a 20 metre pool all to ourselves with the floor in the middle raised so Alanna and her friend could stand on it!
Tuesday we went back to Milestones museum for the morning. I can't believe how cheap the annual membership is (£15) so we can now go back as often as we like. Again we met up with some home educated families who gave us more information. Alanna had great fun running around the cobbled streets finding things on her activity sheet.
Wednesday we met up with some friends at a garden centre for lunch. The children enjoyed giving us hear
t attacks by running around the pot section of the centre! We then made daffodils and painted them (thank you Nicky!). Alanna's lovely purple one is on our newly made seasons table which is taking shape quite nicely.
t attacks by running around the pot section of the centre! We then made daffodils and painted them (thank you Nicky!). Alanna's lovely purple one is on our newly made seasons table which is taking shape quite nicely. 
Thursday we went to the local National Trust place, The vyne for a woodland walk with Grandad. We got some more things for our season table. Alanna practiced her letter recognition, learning about wasps, counting skills, worked out smaller and larger numbers and determined that 1.1 miles was shorter than 1.6 and 2.3! Not bad for a 3 year old. As well as listening to bird sound learning about the world around her and getting exercise (including practicing balancing across a branch - no pictures as she was holding my hand!)
Friday was another work/nursery day but she came home early and helped teach all her toys to jump and swim in a pond (her bed) by demonstrating and helping them!
She's off for a weekend with daddy at the moment so I've been in the garden all day. New Troughs bought for Alanna's beetroot and carrots! Will see what she thinks when she returns.
Have started reading some home education books recently (thanks to Kelly for lending them to me). I have come across the term Wider world educating which I think really sums up the difference between school and Home ed. I really need to look at some schools, but still want to home ed - it just makes so much sense. Hopefully it will happen, only time will tell.
