By Other Means...By Other Means...home educating, vegan family in Scotland Articles
fish, art and - whoops - festive cheer!
2007-11-27 13:27:00 Nice home ed day out yesterday (I left my camera on the usb here so day is not depicted), again a day not as planned but working out well. We went to Duff House playpark first and had intended going round the house but it was closed. We spied much festive goodness through the shop window though ... More About: Fish , Cheer
loud chatter and mountains
2007-11-25 21:45:00 Got the bulk of the kitchen decorating done yesterday… just some little touches to add, but we’ll do that together in the week sometime. Had a great day out today with friends. Davie decided to stay at home and complete some more DIY jobs around the house after he heard we intended going shopping and ... More About: Mountains , Loud , Chatter
door, glasses, paper
2007-11-24 08:52:00 Busy time with joiners again which has resulted in a beautiful new back door which we all love. Fanciest catflap cats have ever seen - they seem pleased too No more need to know the several stepped knack (varies depending on weather) to lock and unlock the door… now it’s time for the red ... More About: Paper , Door , Glasses
CB database found and more deep, dark
2007-11-21 14:32:00 here - sadly now removed - it was spoof ebay item of the missing discs. My mother has told me off for tantalising my readers. Last night her and my sister had concocted various incorrect scenarios for my mysterious meanderings yesterday. It’s really not that interesting and will hopefully all be over and sorted soon - ... More About: Database , Dark , Deep
the word deep occurs far too much here:
2007-11-20 13:07:00 Winter hibernation time seems to have arrived: dark nights; inner exploration; deep realisations; giant chocolate buttons… a very intense time Weve been exploring further and deeper into the wood - the place goes on for miles and we have found intriguing, forgotten houses and other silent, old avenues of huge overgrown trees - have ... More About: Word , Deep
a couple of good books
2007-11-15 15:06:00 Adventures of the Homeschoolers: The Genie in the Teapot by Liz Pilley For children aged four years and up. Freya and Heath embark on the ultimate home ed family history project with magic, genies and pirates. I love their mum with her educational slant on the situation and her fear of inspectors Nice ... More About: Books , Couple , Good
bones and rubble
2007-11-14 20:06:00 Shut some of our home ed children in stocks yesterday. I must take this opportunity to say how shocking it is that so few schools provide this experience for children… stocks should be used more Went for a walk to see some council houses in the roughest part of town. It became so bad ... More About: Bones
Remembrance and reading
2007-11-12 10:05:00 Very good weekend. Yesterday we watched the ceremony at the Cenotaph on TV - kids found it very interesting and insisted on continuing to listen to the rest of it on Radio 4 in the car on the way over to my Mum’s for lunch. Saw various war memorials with their new wreaths on the way. ... More About: Reading , Remembrance , Charlotte
things got a bit animated?
2007-11-10 14:17:00 Yesterday Adrian Mole mentioned Charles and Diana’s wedding, so after our daily listen we went and looked it up on YouTube - that is a really useful resource for stuff like this, really helps to actually see something rather than just talking about it. Went onto look at his marriage to Camilla and some other royal ... More About: Things , Animated
film
2007-11-09 10:59:00 Just as Charlotte is working hard on a short film on movie maker, particularly dealing with the audio, we see this little bit about film music in Harry Potter (out on dvd on Monday - most exciting!)… and here’s a new short film about home ed More About: Film
wind, crystals and soup
2007-11-08 15:18:00 On a bit of a soup kick just now: 110 mile an hour winds here today - lorries have blown over and roofs have blown off. Were still all intact but it’s loud and fierce. Weve been going for extremely long walks of late in the woods but giving that a miss today… tried to photograph the ... More About: Wind , Soup
a few of my favourite things?
2007-11-03 17:19:00 Been doing some bits and pieces. Charlotte’s writing a play, Daniel’s studying politics, I’ve been baking, making full use of the new oven: pizza recipe from top left clockwise: 3 spelt loaves, white rolls, spelt sunflower round, white tin, white plait, onion and poppy, cottage, garlic and herb square: Watched one of my favourite films, ‘My Left Foot‘ ... More About: Things
dragons and mice
2007-10-30 12:36:00 Our very small, very local home ed group went to see Tales from Earthsea yesterday courtesy of National Schools Films Week - do like a bit of anime, us. There was one school in with us - primary 4-7s. It was a bit of a shame for them as they hadn’t realised that the film was ... More About: Mice , Dragons , Drago
pumpkins
2007-10-28 14:27:00 Candy went home - Toby has seemed a little subdued since He’s getting lots of attention to cheer him up… Kids picked all Daniel’s pumpkins and the remaining runner beans - made some lovely soup with them, detailed here (the soya free variant) Then we indulged in some seasonal activities - think I’ll make pasties with the ... More About: Charlotte , Pumpkins
cousins, lighthouse and artful seating
2007-10-24 09:10:00 Our cousins Nicci and Brandon came to stay Went up the lighthouse: Searched for frogs and toads - sadly only managed to catch sight of one, not their favourite time of year this Found a rather good selection of books in a cafe: Browsed the art gallery after lunch. Daniel mistook a modern art installation ... More About: Lighthouse , Seating
books, chocs and railcards
2007-10-19 11:45:00 First off - been sent this through home ed list - you can get a half price family railcard just now if you buy online - I’ve ordered one, used to have one and it really did reduce ticket prices for us: Using a freely available code it’s possible to buy the Family Railcard for £10, ... More About: Books
podcast and stars
2007-10-18 10:12:00 Scotlife podcast this week has a shortened version of that wonderful piece on home ed that radio Scotland broadcast a couple of months back - the HE part is about 6 minutes in I think here. Had a cool time stargazing a couple of nights ago out on the trampoline, under a duvet - very clear ... More About: Stars , Podcast
nothing but the kitchen sink? a little wii and snuggling too?
2007-10-16 11:28:00 Got our new granite worktop done yesterday - it’s gorgeous, so shiny and non-letting-water-inny Have several odd plumbing things going on now. The joiners yesterday have messed up the hot water so we have none in the bathrooms and we have no cold water in the kitchen. Fortuitously plumbers are here today to update ... More About: Kitchen
article and parental worries
2007-10-15 10:22:00 article from the TES on HE in Scotland… some interesting points made there. I do think there is widespread ignorance about parental responsibility and the education act… and have found it funny (both peculiar and ha-ha) when inspector types stress how important it is to make sure the children want to be HE. I do think ... More About: Article , Daniel , Charlotte , Artic , Parent
studies, HE on TV, visitor, bottle and stolen items
2007-10-12 12:46:00 seem to be a lot of these reports around at the mo… Anxiety ‘haunts primary schools’ Half of children theft victims as mentioned in comments and the somewhat ridiculous Boring breaks lead to bullying - yes, why didn’t we all see it before? Some chairs arranged in a certain way and better swings will ’stamp out bullying in all it’s forms’. I’m ... More About: Studies , Stolen , Visitor , Items , Bottle
Religious pilgrimage day
2007-10-10 08:55:00 Following on from our earlier reformation roleplay we visited Pluscarden Abbey yesterday. We all really enjoyed that - watched a short service in the Abbey which was fascinating and beautiful. It felt a unique experience to us - loved it when monks started arriving from all directions for the service. No photos of that of course but there ... More About: Religious , Grim , Pilgrimage
whales and dolphins? actually otter and seal :)
2007-10-08 20:38:00 Really good home ed group trip to the WDCS centre in Spey Bay today - nice big turnout. Think we got more sun in this one day than we had in the whole summer! Kids did a lot of running around playing together - love how that happens so naturally in this group. The ladies ... More About: Dolphins , Seal , Whales , Otter , Ally
wood, pasta and sunflowers
2007-10-05 15:42:00 Gathering Winter Fuel (sung to Good King Wenceslas tune)… well weekend fire fodder anyway Did lots of gardening - pruning and weeding then all made a pasta taste test for lunch. two sunflowers: More About: Pasta , Wood , Sunflowers
parenting petition
2007-10-03 17:25:00 Thanks Lunar for this - it particularly relates to Channel 4’s ‘Bringing Up Baby’ where one baby is being raised using the Truby King method (shut in a room alone, left to scream). Haven’t watched it, don’t think I could bear to tbh… how can parents let a TV show dictate how they raise their kids anyway, whatever ... More About: Parenting , Petition , Parent , Pare
starry skies equate to? something musical maybe?
2007-10-03 16:56:00 … sorry, pitiful attempt at clever title… Played musical pairs - 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 seen so many stars. A friend gave ... More About: Musical , Some , Quat
art, music, literature, maths, French - little bitty education round-up - g
2007-10-01 18:20:00 Went on to our negative spaces drawing of a chair in the art course. Too gorgeous a day to stay inside for it so we set up outside - looks like were making ready for a show but this is what we were meant to do with the chairs! Quite a good exercise I thought, ... More About: Literature , Education , Music , French , Round Up
more autumnal
2007-10-01 09:49:00 Lovely bright days and very cold nights. Were developing a little routine with our wood burning stove here on Walton Mountain? every evening before making dinner, we light it and then have a cosy evening round it, playing board games and watching films :D It heats the radiators amazingly well too, not as fast or hot as the ...
more autumnal
2007-10-01 09:17:00 Lovely bright days and very cold nights. Were developing a little routine with our wood burning stove here on Walton Mountain… every evening before making dinner, we light it and then have a cosy evening round it, playing board games and watching films :D It heats the radiators amazingly well too, not as fast or hot as the ...
Home-schooling on the rise (incoherent jibbering alert)
More articles from this author:2007-09-27 12:38:00 Channel 4 news did a bit last night - I missed it but several people have told me about it today - thank you people You can see the report online here. Other good bits there are the three cases for home ed - autism, bullying and family. Those figures show such a tiny percentage of ... More About: Home , Daniel , Alert , Charlotte , Rise 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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