New Year’s day seems a good time to launch a new blog. Not sure what we want this blog to accomplish ... probably something between a family journal and a record for ourselves about how we're doing on the home education stuff. I’ll try and keep it up, but hey, the new year is a foolish time to make rash promises ...
Today we borrowed an idea from knitting yoghurt, and adapted it to fit our own chaotic lifestyle. Our planned Yule log became a New Year’s log ... because we forgot to do it the other day. So we wrote wishes for the new year, and also wrote down things we wanted to forget about the old year, attached them to a log, along with some dried orange, cloves, herbs and suchlike ... and watched it burn in the fire. The girls started up a spontaneous and unplanned “wishes come true” mantra as it burned, which was, admittedly, a little spooky.
The new Jarvis was the soundtrack to all this, for those interested in that kind of detail.
After the festivities, the girls settled down to some drawing with their new christmas chunky beeswax crayons. They both still draw lots of pictures of smiling snowmen, regardless of the madness in the world at the moment ... I think that’s a good thing, isn’t it?
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... meandering, with a vague destination in mind, but no fixed path
who are the boots?
L - mummy
Big M - daddy
A - big sis
Lil'M - lil'sis
A and Lil’ M are 5 and 4 years old, and are home educated in an autonomous way. For us, this means that they are in control of what they want to learn, and when they want to learn it. Our role, and our childminder’s role, on the days that he is here, is to follow their lead and be around for support, provisions, resources and questions questions questions whenever required. There are lots of other ways of home educating.
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