Normal service is resumed and empowerment

Well this week has been calm and settled after all our visitors over the last 2 weeks and we started doing some more formal learning again on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday was amazing as my daughter got really excited about our learning about the human body and after having drawn around her took time to draw on organs and bones from a diagram and spent a good hour on this alone.  

But today has by far been for me the best day this week and in terms of formal school type learning we have done zilch! This morning we played and then went to a group at our library called a knit and a natter. Neither me nor my daughter can knit and so we we're complete beginners and yet both of us have managed small squares of knitting this morning which we loved.  

The this afternoon after I collected my youngest daughter from playgroup we have all together gone and run the parent and toddler group at our local church and had great fun. The kids got to play some more and now we are all chilled out together having fun, but relaxed and tomorrow they will enjoy what we do because of it! This is why I love home ed! The freedom to learn things you would have no chance to learn in school, skills we can learn and develop together and enjoy!!!!! We also spent some time yesterday looking at the river just because we could,

And the as it was dad's birthday we came home and made a birthday cake for dad! 

Yum yum!!!

The end of half term

Well it has been a busy two weeks, with all our visitors we had had 2 weeks off any sort of semi structure as d had 2 weeks of fun and informal learning! 

On Friday we had our second book club and looked at hairy maclary and we baked dog shaped biscuits to decorate made our own figure puppets and made toy dogs out of old toilet rolls! Great fun

Today was no exception as the Hama beads came out and some beautiful pictures were created

But the biggest thing today was the big sort out of the girls play room! Old toys were cleared out and donated to charity, walls were cleaned and posters put up, wall hangers were ordered to store school supplies in and now we just need to set up the computer in there and put up a couple of shelves and then we are al ready to use the play room as a school room. This will be great as all toys will be in one place and the girls will be able to choose their activities to work on, be it creative play or role play or written work it will all be together in one place! 

Tomorrow their grandma departs for Spain and we will be sad to see her go but we are looking forward to getting back to some sort of routine :-)