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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:he-artseasonal and busyBring on the Learning Revolution!

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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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the waldorf maths post

By admin | Published March 30, 2007

The children attended a Waldorf school for three terms and I worked there too. I had read lots of Steiner over the years and always liked the whole ethos of it but I was unprepared for how it would look in real life as it were. Before I wax lyrical about the maths I do [...]

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Happy Birthday Charlotte :)

By admin | Published December 15, 2006

She’s 12 now :) Much hilarity was had this morning thanks to this very pink gift: and this accompanying game. Davie and myself performed a wonderful duet of ‘We are Family’. Hopefully the children won’t have to pay lots to psychiatrists in the future to talk about that ;) Then we went and saw Eragon at the cinema – all [...]

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very windy

By admin | Published September 20, 2006

don’t know if it’s the hurricane tail or not. Did lots of indoor things today. Charlotte had some Eerie English and Momentous Maths – she still really likes those, have ordered a couple more in the series. Dan was on 2xl again. Kids now play a maths game while I hoover round first thing. Today [...]

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gorgeous glasgow

By admin | Published August 25, 2006

food:  Well we started off as we meant to go on at the 13th note - amazing food, loved the fact that the things that were not vegan were the ones marked with at V – made a nice change that this was spotted on Cat’s shelves ooh, Cat made fab ice cream sundaes Daniel declared [...]

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