Some of the children experimented with painting this morning (mostly finger painting with white paint on black paper), and making pop-up cards based on ideas on Robert Sabuda’s website (author of “Prehistorica: Dinosaurs” and “Prehistorica: Sharks & Sea Monsters” with Matthew Reinhart).
We finished reading Dr. Dolittle today which was bitter-sweet: the children enjoyed the book and the ending was good, but sad because it had come to an end. Pony-rider drew a picture of Jip being presented a golden collar by the Mayor of the small town, which read “Jip, the Cleverest Dog in the World” from the story in chapter 20. We have a pile of new books to choose from next, but I may not start another until we’ve finished “Young Fu”.
In the afternoon, we listened to CDs, and Pony-rider & Tipper-trucker danced (…became trucks… then a pushme-pullyou…) to the music, while Dragon-Tamer experimented with the scanner/ photocopier… and when it wouldn’t do what he wanted, went on to reading (mostly “The Art Book” published by Phaedon which introduces a wide range of artistic styles.
Motor-biker is still poorly and subdued so the walk I had planned is postponed. Dragon-Tamer decided to read to the younger children, and “Ursula Bear” by Shiela Lavelle was selected. They’ve been having a fair amount of trouble getting on recently, so it was a real joy to see them all huddled up together happily on the sofa. 🙂
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on my ‘Svengelska Hemskolan’ blog (and my blog on ‘Multiply’) in around 2006/7 when the children would have been around 4, 6, 8 and 12. I had forgotten that Baba Zonee briefly chose to call himself ‘Tipper-trucker’. That didn’t last! This excerpt of a random day so long ago is a reminder of how joyful home education could be, how it’s possible to seemlessly include a range of subjects informally and how much I would still recommend home education now that my children have moved on to school, college, university and the world, with their love of learning and thirst for knowledge still intact.
Little Bears Home Education 