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[...] and learnt lots of new things, I thought the older ones would probably gain something from reading them also.  The left set are a few picture books, [...]

[...] , I did exactly as I had with the older three and transitioned smoothly into quiet time.  The older ones already had quiet time after lunch so A was effectively doing a grown up thing in her eyes.   [...]

[...] in addition to working our way through chapter two of Who is God? Apologia curriculum.  The older ones completed three more lessons of Cover Story, their writing curriculum, and during their one [...]

[...] week next week during our morning meeting time. Quiet time has led to much reading by the older ones of all their Tudor reading books, as well as some wonderful (but quiet) imaginative play by the [...]

[...] and I will still expect good attitudes from them during both their school week and their unschooling week.  The unschooling week will only be different in terms of school.  I hope it will be an [...]

[...] whom I would imagine unschooling to work for. Funnily enough the two of us dealt with the unschooling week in much the same way.  We both had plans of things we wanted to achieve, but with so much [...]

[...] the next morning. And it was due to the aforementioned diatribe that I decided on an unschooling week.  I needed a holiday.  That said we had a lot which needed to be done, y’know chore- [...]

[...] schooling week so that, y’know, I actually do what I’ve promised to do during our unschooling week and back off, I’ve been a tincy wincy  bit pushy.  In fact I may have gone round [...]

[...] , and then the roof: The little girls were thrilled.  At last they could decorate.  The older girls were not so thrilled.  They had a derelict church to decorate and could only do so [...]

[...] and T11 and Gary would be out fencing.  Whilst I was tucking the little ones up, the older girls lay a blanket out on the floor and made hot chocolate and tea in their Great Granny’s [...]

[...] I have for you, plans for good and not evil; plans to give you hope and a future’ The older girls were given the whole of Proverbs 31 and also a separate scroll with verse 25 –  ‘She [...]

[...] to make on account of their very regular shapes and colours.  Over the past year or so the older girls have sewn their own Little Miss Twins to give to B3 as a birthday present: The little ones have [...]

[...] a specific and special time, with snuggles on laps and hopefully no interruptions. The older children also love to read aloud to their younger siblings and this is something we encourage.   [...]

[...] comprehension skills are lacking. I did not need to teach comprehension skills to my older children.  Reading was second nature to them, almost from the start.  They immersed themselves [...]

[...] to experience the wonder of those previous ten weeks. This past year has also seen my older children shoot up, in size and in maturity.  T12 has surpassed Gary in height, has had his voice [...]

[...] .  Within 10 minutes I am bounding along, thoroughly enjoying the teasing I get from my older children and the wet slippery hand holding I am blessed to have from my littlest two: We visit [...]

This blog is primarily a gift for my children.  It is the legacy of their childhood.  The best bits, the memories, successes and trials for them to [...]

T11 was born just 9 months and three weeks before his twin sisters.  After a very dangerous time giving birth to L naturally and C by emergency caesa [...]

Donna asked if I would post the recipe for these, so here it, especially for you, Donna!  It is a recipe from the book ‘The Adventure of Christmas [...]

I do realise I’m posting this after Christmas, but I wanted to include it in my tradition series, without having to wait a whole year to do so. Thi [...]

[...] in: Life in an Ashinabe Camp is a great little non fiction picture book which introduces the Ojibwe nation and how the people used to live and live now.  We have used this book almost every week, [...]

[...] to have a break from European history and do a native American study, focusing on the Ojibwe Nation.  This has been fun and as the saying goes a break really is as good as a rest and we [...]

[...] was to draw their pictographs on birchbark scrolls.  There are also many areas where the Ojibwe nation in the past have left behind pictographs, petroforms and petroglyphs.  We made our own [...]

Ticia asked for me to do a post collecting all my Ojibwe posts into one place.  So here it is: Native American Unit Study The First Native America [...]

[...] her daddy: There was much to be impressed by – look at how rich it is right at the bottom: Whilst Gary sorted out the compost L was given the litter picker to do a bit more rubbish collection, T [...]

[...] !  A happy girl indeed.  I do love my family! Tonight Granny is very kindly babysitting whilst Gary and I pop out to the same restaurant (yes, Gary will be really well fed today!), so there [...]

[...] we were all in the Christmas spirit and that some of the fun of the previous years returned.  Whilst Gary and the other children were collecting T11 from his Saturday physics lesson I got to work, [...]

[...] thought she would be a doddle to teach.  I couldn’t have been more wrong. Her three older siblings took to reading like a duck to water, and to this day read every spare moment.  A6, [...]

[...] the journey I have started to help my little girl enjoy reading to the same extent as her older siblings. [...]

[...]  I say young because she would be significantly younger in her outlook on life than her older siblings.  She still thoroughly enjoys make believe play and using her imagination.  She is [...]

I was very excited about doing a study of Ojibwe art because I adore it!  I had pinned an inordinate amount of pins with references to this art form. [...]

[...] inspiration from the picture studies we have already done of the Ojibwe floral designs and Ojibwe Gathering of the Clans and we stuck to solid bright colours.  We used the above pictures to inspire a [...]

[...]  Nation Ojibwe Calender Ojibwe Pictographs Law Study – Ojibwe clans Picture Study: Ojibwe Gathering of the Clans Art Study – Ojibwe Birch Bark Biting Ojibwe Art Study: Floral Designs [...]