Home Education Adventures in the UK.
For most families home education doesn’t stop when you get sick unless everyone is unwell, which means that there will be times when your kids are healthy and you feel rubbish and still have to get through the day.
This week I’m talking to Kate McConaghy who now writes regularly for HomeEdVoices.co.uk. We talk about videogames and how they can be a gateway to literacy. How it all counts, not just the stuff that looks the most like school, and how you can structure your yearly plan to protect your mental health.
It’s time for us to take a break, but before that, lots of thank yous!
We’ll be back in January with new content and episode replays. xxx
Books we are loving December 2019
The Twelve Birds of Christmas, Moodstruck!, The Trapdoor Mysteries, and The Thirteen Days of Christmas
Many families are celebrating a variety of festivals over December and trying to add seasonal festivities on top of a full home ed life is likely to result in overwhelm.
Here are some things you can do to keep things calm(er)…
Special effects and stunts, the history of Christmas Carols, a vocabulary expanding instagram account and an amazing Rube Goldberg machine.
In case you need some ideas for what to bring into your home this Christmas, here are a selection of things that we are Home Ed Voices really love.
This is episode 23 and this week I’m talking to Helen from @Belzibow. We talk about Helen’s lapbooks and picture book units at Branch Out World, helen tells us how her family tackles GCSEs, and about keeping teens engaged in home ed groups.
Now that the clocks have gone back, a Lantern Walk is a lovely way to embrace the darker evenings and remember that the more light will return in spring.
Books we are loving – November 2019
Illegal, Politics for Beginners, Return to Wonderland