WEEK 1 COMPLETED!

For the last day of our first week I decided to take ER to the victorian museum. It is set out as if you have gone back in time and are in a victorian street!

 ER and her little sister dressed up in the outfits provided by the museum (so did dad!!) And they had a ball. Looking into all the shop windows and looking at the displays.

ER was facinated at EVERYTHING. Im not sure how much sunk it but I think we will do a little report about it on Monday :)

Day 4

Today we focused of phonics and spellings. I thought we'd start with the basics and see where to go from there. ER has the reading age of 6.8 even though shes 5.7 so I expected her to fly through the CVC spelling test I set up. To my surprise she only got 5/10 I had a look to see if there was a connection with the mistake and there was. The letter E and I she seems to get mixed up with the sounds so next time we do phonics I think we will concentrate more on those letter sounds.

I feel good that I have noticed the issue as soon as it happened, it fills me with confidence that I am actually capable of doing this home school stuff. I have been nervous and worried, wondering if I was capable but as the days go on I realise that she is literally like a sponge, sucking up all the information. Its a beautiful thing to see :)

Day 3

Today I am feeling a lot more relaxed about our choice and we seem to just fall into a pattern of learning. Infact ER comes to me when she wants to start some work, today we decided to get into the christmas spirit and make some christmas trees.

Tomorrow she wants to learn history by going outside and finding old things with a magnifying glass?!!?! Haha should be fun :D

Day 2 Homeschool

Today ER decided she wanted to learn about space.
She drew a big space rocket that would take her to the planet Neptune.
I looked through some book and online and together we leaned about the planet.
ER drew a landscape of what she thought Neptune would look like. She made it very cold, I asked her why and she said because its so far away from the sun :D SHE LISTENED AND LEARNED!!
She drew the sun in the sky but it was very small because it was so far away. She drew the large blue spot which she remembered was a massive storm so she drew, lightening, and snow coming from it!

I wrote some sentences about Neptune and left blank spaces for her to fill in.
Next stop who knows ;D

Day one of Homeschool

First day in and to say I am nervous and daunted is an understatement! To top it all I have the worst Flu/cold/virus type thing ever
I emailed the school the dereg letter for ER but I was worried that they hadnt read it so I took a copy and handed it in personally to the deputy head. Fully prepared for lectures, disapproving looks and many questions, she took from me the letter, smiled and wished me luck!! ALL THAT WORRY FOR NOTHING!
Back home we did a bit of handwriting practice, phonics and made some home made ketchup :D

Still feeling over whelmed but happy

My address

and postcode

DATE

HEADTEACHERS NAME

SCHOOL ADDRESS

AND POSTCODE

Dear HEAD TEACHERS NAME

YOUR CHILDS NAME – CHILDS DATE OF BIRTH

I am writing to inform you that we have decided to withdraw our son/daughter from

school in order to take personal responsibility for her education. Please delete his/her name

from the register in accordance with Education (Pupil Registration) Regulation 8 (1) (d)

2006, as she is now receiving education otherwise than at school.

Yours sincerely

PARENTS NAME