Category Archives: games

embalming…

By admin | Published January 18, 2008

Had a fascinating afternoon yesterday learning all about embalming. This is one of Moonrabbit Lucy’s many areas of expertise, one of her 4 current jobs, and I’d asked her to give us a talk on it :) It was an excellent lesson - we studied veins, arteries, bones, tissues, diseases, tools of the trade, the history of embalming, chemicals used… [...]

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fab photography

By admin | Published January 13, 2008

You know you’re a home educator when you find yourself standing in a dark room with lots of children who keep grabbing you and saying “who’s that?” and “did you just poke me in the back?” It was a really lovely day of photographic activities organised by parents in the HE group – Dad was a [...]

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game of life

By admin | Published December 22, 2007

Watching the new BBC adaptation of Oliver Twist (which is great btw) last night, we observed Nancy solicit the services of a street scribe to write a letter as she couldn’t read or write herself. With the current shocking school leaving literacy rates could we see a return to such trades? Pushing literacy even younger [...]

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free rice

By admin | Published October 30, 2007

donate rice and improve your vocabulary Related posts:the sacking of deer abbeyloveliesfab photography

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starry skies equate to…?

By admin | Published October 3, 2007

… sorry, pitiful attempt at clever title…  Played musical pairs with the snap – goes perfectly with our current piano practice :) Equate in the sun yesterday - lovely weather continues (colder today though). Kids made vegetable and barley soup with lots of bits from the garden too. Stunning skies last night – don’t know when I’ve [...]

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dead poets and merry gentlemen

By admin | Published September 20, 2007

The sun came out and we scrabbled in it: Much music practice has been taking place – I love the sound of the piano through the house: Made some candles – I used to make them quite a lot in the past, felt nice to be doing that again… it’s a peaceful craft. Watched Dead [...]

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bits and bobs of education

By admin | Published September 18, 2007

weve been up to. Measured the sunflower this morning – it’s 8’11″ – so lovely and strong these flowers. Weve been playing Trilemma as a good re-stretch of maths abilities, all seems to have been well retained over summer. Had a go on the Skoool site for Pythagoras again, quite fun, like how they have [...]

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the sacking of deer abbey

By admin | Published September 13, 2007

There’s nothing like a good pillage among friends really is there? Sorry, I mean serious study of the reformation. The monks at this abbey were known as white monks because of their white habits so Moonrabbit Lucy sorted that for the girls and ebay fitted out Martin Luther ;) Started with the pinning of his 95 [...]

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playful

By admin | Published September 3, 2007

Weekend felt really quiet with Charlotte being away at a friends – don’t know why as she’s not really noisy :) Boys had some fun with a hovercraft at dusk (hence dark pic): Lion sometimes accompanies us on a lochside walk – he tends to get left behind and cry and ends up being carried like [...]

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friends, angels, spooky, roses…

By admin | Published August 10, 2007

Been a busy week. Charlotte’s friend Anna came to stay which was nice. Interesting how looking at things with someone else revives them or makes you realise things. Old games such as the Harry Potter trivia game (harder than you’d think, being based on the 1st book, not the film) have been rediscovered and new ones [...]

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