Home education is a patchwork of educational experiences, throughout which the home base remains the constant. Other things change, opportunities come and other experiments cease to work. This time last year the boys were going horse riding every fortnight, but the stables were too far away to continue that. Today our group sessions in the centre have ceased, at least for now. Not all the children were benefiting and it was becoming tiring for the adults, not least for me with all my “are we ever moving” hassles.
We finished today by looking at the life story of Abu ad-Darda (ra), practising using grid references on maps and drawing maps on a grid, and writing conversation poems. When this was done the boys wrote stories freely until the end of the session.
Also today they saw an old friend who has been abroad for a while. Ia went to nursery and brought home another junk model. This afternoon they are playing something complicated that involves having a lot of toys all over the floor and table.
What else? The boys are still reading loads. We picked up more library books on Tuesday. Maths has been resumed and Ia has been doing more cut out crafts. They’ve also been watching Springwatch, which does at least teach them something with no effort from me! I’m pleased they are interested anyway, alhamdulillah.
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