Dec 5th till Dec 13th.

Winding down now in readyness for Xmas so had lots of envelopes with worksheets in them and he has worked his way thru them doing whichever bit interests him on whichever day. Made the most of the only dry day and went to play some golf.

Dec 3rd n 4th.

Presentation night up the golf club for the juniors and the Xmas party the day after....only stayed for an hour of the party tho.

Ready for presentation night.

Dec 1st n 2nd.

As well as the usual English n Math there was history about Dickens and Victorian childhoods, project work about Madagascar after watching a programme about the animals and lots of Xmas decorations and place mats etc made.  Busy weekend ahead as he has presentation night tomorrow at the golf course and the Xmas party the day after.

Nov 19th till Nov 30th.

We have both been unwell over the last few weeks so been a funny few weeks.....stuck with the envelope idea as it was easier for both with us taking it in turns to feel rough. He had a great weekend at his grandparents n took photos to work on.

Js multi pic of photos he took while with his grandparents.

The rest of things are taken up with the usual English, Maths etc and golf in among the rain and illness lol. And J has joined a group on Facebook for home schooled kids and its a weekly challenge with photography....first week was music, this week is broken.

Monday 14th till Friday 18th Nov 2011.

Decided this week to try a different approach to learning that ive heard other home educators do and that's envelopes and the child works thru them in their own order. He still had the same topics for each day but the envelopes were on the table and he chose what to do when so long as they were all done.

Tuesday was home ed group, it was Space themed and we had rocks and stuff from the moon etc and someone gave a speech too.

Wednesday was more envelopes lol and we also went on a walk round Ynyshir looking for any Victorian buildings, we had tried the internet but didn't find much, we were shocked how hard it was to find out about Victorian buildings in our area but managed to find two.

Thursday was the usual lessons then p.e. in the afternoon n he had a lesson with the pro and them played 5 holes n played amazingly and did a massive drive on hole 1 :)

Friday was a shortened day of learning and reading then some time at the golf range then over to his nan n granddads in the evening.

Friday 11th November 2011

Went on a field trip today to the Heritage park to learn about life in the early 1900's and down thru the time of coal-mining.

Thursday 10th November 2011

Had a flexi/autonomous day today...did maths etc on the golf course and took J to play nine holes while doing maths on the course and ended up covering Science and Geography aswell. As always he played amazingly :)