Spring has started!

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 heart 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.

puddles and more...

Another busy week

Monday saw me at work and Alanna with a friend for the first time on her own. She seemed to thoroughly enjoy it and is still talking about it now.

Tuesday we got to the home Ed group meet up at JJs (local soft play place). Alanna was so excited she couldn't wait to get her shoes off - we haven't been for over 6 months and then have only been a total of 3 times previously! We have arranged to meet up with a couple of people and I am trying to arrange a few more meet ups on a one to one basis.

Wednesday came I drove 33 miles for a training with staff I work alongside, run by a trainer from the next door building to work, then 33 miles back again! Hopefully part 2 will be at work


Thursday we met a lovely local family for the first time having only spoken over the GP forum until then. We also discovered our children were born on the same day, same year just different towns!

Friday was a work/nursery day and Brownies.

On the way into nursery we heard a woodpecker so Alanna walked in doing woodpecker impressions much to the confusion of the staff! Alanna joined the Brownies going up the bell tower from the church next to the hall with the help of a Young Leader.

Today! - Saturday

Even busier!! and yet so much more rewarding!

We have made bread (again with bread maker)

hung out bird feeders

Alanna has done some maths (from an activity book)

The we went on a puddle walk and remembered the camera

All by 11am!

We then went shopping and came back to an indoor picnic - my Little girl was getting a bit tired by then so we had to have our luxury on our indoor picnic!

one of our guests!

This afternoon with the help of Grandad we have condemned our tv! The sound has gone for the last 2 weeks and when we tried the DvD freeview with the small portable it works fine. So the freeview box is now upstairs with the portable in my room. On the landing shelves are all our videos and DvDs.

Now where the Tv was is our new seasons table!! Which is currently quite big due to using the tv stand. So far it has a rainbow silk on it and a small bowl of blue glass nuggets to symbolise the puddles. When it looks a bit better photos will follow. Until then I just hope the cat has no interest in the table!