THE WEEK INBETWEEN

Back to ‘school’ this week!

We had stashed everything into a big box file and piled what hadn’t fitted in on top, so there was a bit of a pile of work to go through. I’d been printing off bits as well and we spent most of Tuesday’s ‘school time’ going through everything and setting it all in order. We are currently running 7 consecutive projects: Space, Titanic, Transport, Waves, Dinosaurs, Arts Award and general reviews plus his maths. We took each one in turn and made a list of what needed doing in each one and took the smaller tasks on first.

This meant writing up all the days out we’d done and putting in pictures as necessary. There was a lot and it took us Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to complete them all. We then gathered up all the odd bits and pieces and put them all into their destined folders, ready to be ‘finished’ when the time comes.


We concentrated mainly on Transport this week as we’d been to the M&D 100 Anniversary at Detling and hadn’t written up that day or downloaded the photos. Callum had also read a book on climate change and the effects transport has on it, so that needed writing up and further investigation noted. I also remembered that when we had first started home education I’d asked some people to fill in some questionnaires about their travelling habits and holidays (we hadn’t got round to using them), so we pulled those out, adapted the questionnaire a bit, printed out some more and are going to gather some more data.


Next week we really have to finish our Waves project as this is the one that we are taking to the Home Ed Science Fair and that is in less than 2 weeks’ time! Aaaaargh! Luckily it doesn’t have to be majorly huge and we have lots of print outs and pictures. We’ve also made a wave machine, so it’s really just tying up some loose ends and putting it all together.

Didn’t have any day trips this week (phew), but we did go along to our old trampolining class as guests, so Callum (and I) got to see everybody and Callum could have an extra bounce! Was great to see everyone again and Callum enjoyed the lesson.

Now, of course, we have another bank holiday weekend.