!schooling Jul 1-5

• home education

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now]

Had to temporarily drop theAbysmal dates as I got completely and utterly lost. Stupid Gregorian calendar and it’s shifting days ;) I’ll try to pick it up again next week.

Week before this one we trialled out the new weekly schedule. It went pretty well I think, and 6yo in particular has been enjoying checking it each day to find out what we’re up to that day, and to see what’s coming up. The new boxes have been working out quite well too, though after I’d sorted the books into the boxes I realised that there are only maths, English and science books (or more accurately 8yo has a science book, the other two don’t). I’m waiting on the two laptops to get here so I can set them up and I think the last two days will be Khan Academy (expanding and consolidating existing skills as well as learning new ones or just exploring random subject areas), Reading Eggs/Maths Seeds (mostly consolidation, only 4yo is really learning anything new from them) and general art shenanigans. I’m having a very hard time squeezing other languages in there, we’re still doing a very confusing and random mix of Lojban and Malay with no logic whatsoever behind it.

We’re being very slack on the bookwork otherwise, my sister is up, and I’m in the runaround phase for another freebie site so again most of the kids’ learning has been the usual conversational and experiential and much play-based. We’ll be heading up to Christmas Island soon and won’t be doing any at all for three weeks.

I do need to take more photos (and will likely take heaps while back home).

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