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Living in the North of Scotland, vegan, home educating, dancing, cake eating, writing, woodland walking... no set subject matter here really though :)
The more ancient archives are the old home ed diary starting in June 2005 and evolving on from there.
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things we like
Salt of the Earth deodorant
totally natural and awesome!
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Beautifully pure laundry nuts... better for the planet and your skin... works out cheap too.
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The greatest blender ever...
The Vitamix!
Used daily by us :)
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Coconut oil is a youth enhancing, beautiful smelling moisturiser, a healthy cooking oil and a hair conditioner...
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books
A great little guide to Britain's wild foods
Amazon.co.uk
How to Grow Your Own Food: A Week-by-week Guide to Wild Life Friendly Fruit and Vegetable Gardening - actually a very good, humorous read too. Full of practical advice for getting the most food out of your garden.
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Popular Posts
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Tag Archives: numbers
band of brothers
Had quite an academic learning type day today. We sat and reviewed our maths learning from the past year and then warmed up slowly with Potty Professors and some of the harder magic squares from here. The children still expect and worry that they’re going to get it all wrong, a leftover from school, though it is [...]
some stats
shamelessly lifted from the aeuk blog but they are really worth repeating, from the recent Unicef report: More than 360,000 children injured in schools each year 450,000 children bullied in school last year At least 16 children commit suicide each year as a result of school bullying An estimated 1 million children truant every year Treasury [...]
flood and fire
We watched this great little film thing on the Fibonacci Sequence here from Brain Pop (saw this at Aspie Home Education) and Daniel has been learning Japanese with this CD Rom lent by friends – great fun with the games. Yesterday’s floods in the woods and today’s trip to a Wickerman festival… mouseover for little comments [...]
throwing plants into the equation
Had a very good game of Equate today – kinda like Scrabble but with equations. I liked that – seemed more like thinking for yourself as opposed to doing the sums set by someone else. You end up doing a lot of mental calculation to find an equation that you can do with your pieces. [...]
sheep and shunning
A really good day out today. The weather is definitely cooler – last night was the first night in the tent that weve felt a bit cold. I think tonight will be a final camping night for just now. Headed off to visit Nicola this morning. On the way we stopped off at Loanhead of Daviot [...]
maths day
Last night Daniel asked me ‘do we have any exciting plans for tomorrow?’ The poor child had an oscar winning moment of shrieking ‘NO‘ and wringing his hands when I told him we were having a maths day. Honestly – I still have so much damage to undo from his first 6 years of school! Didn’t [...]
banana maths
This morning weve been kept really busy with maths – Dan’s tutorial lasted a long time and had lots more questions than usual. Charlotte was doing magical maths again and the angles took a while – backed that up with a banana game and also Kung Fu Angles which she really liked and completed all [...]
Hannibal
Well the day just kept on raining so we went a bit schooly with maths and English for Charlotte, maths tutorial for Dan and some clock/time play on these. Did a meditation and story off the I am a Star CDs mentioned earlier (am tiring of making links!) about being light – mellow. Then we [...]
trekking and chemistry
Had a maths morning today consolidating basics again and reinforcing the idea that maths is fun. Having had the opposite message blasted at us for years this takes a while to accomplish! Played the Da Vinci Code Game which is really more logical thinking than maths but good nontheless. Then Charlotte chose Magic Cauldron which [...]
27 children
Just had a nice quiet day here after all the gadding about of the last week. We all did a mountain meditation from relax kids followed by a pilates workout. Then kids both did some maths which I backed up with games – Dan was working on primes and composites so we played Trilemma and Charlotte [...]
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