As a family, we adore this nature playground in 100 Acre Woods. You can take a good woodland hike with the little people, you can play in a huge a sandpit and nature inspired playground blended into the woodland, or you can go au naturel and use nature to play, be creative, and employ that imagination. When we arrived in …
Detachment Wobbles.
Over the past few days our little lady has been having a few little detachment wobbles over leaving her friends at school. This is not entirely unexpected, and resulted in her making a card for her lovely ex teacher. She’s quite nosey, so wants to know who is new in the class instead of her, and she’s keen to know …
Mamma’s Day
Ever since the twins entered our lives with a bang, 5 weeks early, life has been pretty full on (they walked at 11 months, competively scooted at 16 months against each other, and then of course there were the early days, which saw at least 6 breast feeds a night!!). So, as you can imagine, all this calamity was a …
Outdoor Play Resources-Easy Ideas for Garden Play.
When children love being outside in nature, and outside being a great place to learn, it’s best to utilise whatever sized space you have, as much as you can, to encourage creativity and imaginative play. So I’ve been thinking about some outdoor play resources. When we moved into our home, the compromise was the outdoor space. However, with the beach …
Bang! Bang!
A sunny spring day and they are attacking the nails and wood with their hammers. They are busy creating a “see saw”, a “pavement”, (little brains are great), and a third just banging away liberally 🙂 I’ve already had, “but Mamma it hurts when I just keep banging myself”! Don’t panic, no serious injuries have happened, but they are …
Child Led Learning – Nails, Hammers, and Dissection!
Our little lady is naturally curious, and Sunday afternoon saw her commandeering the household tool box to dissect conkers and chestnuts, at the kitchen table. Child led learning was in full swing. She was using all sorts to break her way into them. Delight was in discovering furry undersides, like velvet, to the skins, and the fact a chestnut looked …
Routines
Our little family thrives on having some structure to its day…I know I’ve written about unstructured play, but by routine I mean an overall general routine applied to our day, everyday, so everyone knows where they stand. Otherwise, completely unstructured days can be just as overwhelming for little ones as too much structured play. Therefore when we thought about this …
Take a Risk…Why It Is Important
When I went into our little lady’s parents evening, and I was explaining our decision to remove her from formal education, one big issue was the lack of them being allowed to take a risk in our current world. I had 2 four year olds that were drilling and sawing in Forest School, but an eight year old that hadn’t …
Self Learning Mini Men & Discovering.
Self learning, a home educators dream! I hadn’t imagined a situation where self learning would be happening so well as I am so new to this, but rapidly seeing that it happens all the time for the children. A very generous Father Christmas 😉 gave our two little ones these lovely glasses in their stockings. They come with 4 pairs …
Easter Egg trails and Nature Playtime.
It’s the first day of the Easter holidays, and with Easter day upon us almost immediately, (and with what was looking like being the only sunny day of the long weekend), we needed to head out on an Easter egg hunt. We chose Harold Hillier Gardens near Romsey as this is somewhere we had never been before, so not done …
