More articles from back home....Julie Ridley

And some articles by a wonderful friend of mine that sadly I am no longer in touch with - she was my role model when I first started as a homeschooler/ unschooler and I really looked up to her - spent many many wonderful days at her house with her amazing family...she got me interested in astrology and La Leche League too!!! :)

I believe Julie Ridley eventually ended up Chairing Education Otherwise and campaigning for home education rights in the UK!! Well done Julie!!! :) She runs home birthing support groups over there too :)

www.education-otherwise.org/Links/HE_Adult_St/JRidley.htm

An article by Moi!!!!

www.underhill.nildram.co.uk/article_2.htm

I wrote this article when I was homeschooling my three oldest children in the UK. My Son should have started school three weeks after his 4th birthday in England, where children start much earlier than here in Canada.

Gardening frenzy :)

Our plants are doing really well and A helps to check on them and water them regularly!

Egg painting

Painting eggs on Easter Day is always so much fun :) Even Daddy joins in the fun :)

Chocolate nests

Mmmmmmm chocolate nests for Easter! The girls were busy making Easter nests today :) Yummy!

Bee book

Since Bee Movie was released, and since we are all a little obsessed with bees in this house generally, I thought I'd recommend this book! Although Bee Movie is a wonderful book, it is VERY inaccurate where bee's are concerned. If you would like your children to learn about bees and know the correct information, then this book (and the tv show that goes with the book) is a wonderful place to start!

Parachutes.......

Parachutes.....

Growing salt crystals

Day one........

Finished hand print....

Plaster of Paris hand print!

Today we used Plaster of Paris to make a print of A's hand in a heart shaped plaque. It was good messy fun! Tomorrow we get to paint the finished plaque and then I will take a picture of the end result!

Repotting....

Our seedlings have done really well - so well that we had to re-pot our pumpkins as they got so big!

Build a Bear

Last week A went to Build a Bear as a birthday treat. She chose a dog and named her 'I Love You Puppy'. In the store you get to help build your toy, choose a sound to go inside, kiss the heart and fill the toy and then create the adoption certificate etc. When you get home you can create a world for your pet online similar to Webkinz.

Spooky Spice!

A filled a bowl with water and sprinkled pepper on the top! Then she dipped her finger into the centre of the bowl. Alacazam! The pepper moves to the side of the bowl when A puts her finger in.....why???????

A. secretly has a little soap on her finger! The water molecules stick together until the soap breaks the bond. Then the water molecules on the side pull harder, taking the pepper along!

Day old lamb

We went to visit some friends and while there we saw their sheep including their day old lamb who had arrive a few weeks early. They didn't think he was premature at all though. Very cute! Without the donkey and dog to guard them, the coyotes in the area would get one a day!

Seedlings...

Getting some of our seeds started....A planted some pumpkins and sunflower seeds for an early started.

Baking

We've been doing a lot of baking in recent weeks...including some of our favourite fudge topped brownies to take to our friends house to share....