Home Education
I’m very interested in the idea of home education and have not yet made up my mind whether I want to send my kids off to school when they reach school age next September.
There seems to be so many long-term benefits to be gained from teaching your kids at home (instilling the values that are dear to your family, no exposure to bullying, being able to go on lots of interesting visits to interesting places whenever you fancy not just at weekends and holidays, more opportunity to spend time with a wide variety of people rather than the 29 other local 5 year olds each day etc etc).
I’ve written several posts on this blog (under the category of Home Education) and have linked to some great HE website s and resources. While I muse the options of how best to educate my kids I am putting this page together as my own personal HE resource in case I do take on the challenge and the responsibility for home educating both or either of my children at any point in the future.
I’m going to record here ideas I see in practice at the pre-school nursery my children attend two days each week which may come in handy in the future and I’ll forget if I don’t jot somewhere.
Ourselves:
- Looking at Then and Now photos (baby pics and now pics)
- Building photographic family trees
- Drawing on a map where they and members of their family live
- Self-portraits
- Drawings of what they can see outside their bedroom windows
- Likes and dislikes (my perfect day, my favourite book, my favourite meal)
- Tracing over dotted lines of their names
- Talking to mummy and daddy about when I was born
- What I might like to do when I am a grown up