Well we are officially home schoolers... I got my letter the other day from the premier!
I have a card and all :)
So we are official and it has given me the kick in the butt that I needed to start documenting things better (I hope)
So shortly I will be doing a post on what we have been up to over the last little while. There is some Beltane celebration, some hockey, and just general bits and pieces that should be said with a few photo's thrown in for good measure.
Hopefully I will get more on track once our lives settle down after the massive xmas and new year break. Moving house and all that Jazz... if it all works out :)
November 6, 2009
August 5, 2009
On the way
We have purchased a new printer to assist in our schooling activities. It is a multifunction centre so our first activity was to photo copy our hands :)
Ishtar has a poster about sharks to put together, we are slowly becoming more organised to do things. I have been given a catalogue of learning materials from my sisters. There is some nice things in it and I will go through it more thoroughly with Kurt when he gets home, anything I purchase will help raise money for the school my nephews attend, added bonus???
My little boy loves putting his train set together in all manner of ways and loves playing with his sisters lego.
Ishtar on the other hand just wants to be away from her brother day and night.
gotta go bub waking up
Ishtar has a poster about sharks to put together, we are slowly becoming more organised to do things. I have been given a catalogue of learning materials from my sisters. There is some nice things in it and I will go through it more thoroughly with Kurt when he gets home, anything I purchase will help raise money for the school my nephews attend, added bonus???
My little boy loves putting his train set together in all manner of ways and loves playing with his sisters lego.
Ishtar on the other hand just wants to be away from her brother day and night.
gotta go bub waking up
July 19, 2009
Moving Along
Well, this post has been a long time coming. on the 2nd of June I gave birth to my 3rd child, a beautiful girl, we named her Jezara Bethany. Since then life has been very hectic, we have renovations being organised, started and hopefully in the not to distant future finalised. I have arranged for the carpet layers to come in tomorrow and give me an exact quote so we can book in the day for them to come and do the work, that will leave only a few small jobs in the house for me to finish to complete the interior. Then we have a clean up and the job of getting the exterior cladders to come and finish up outside. After those are complete the house will be on the market within a few weeks and hopefully sold very soon after that.
As for schooling well we are not doing alot in that direction at the moment, I am trying to establish my ability to parent 3 children without involving any type of schooling structure first. We have written a few small stories, are taking part in the premiers reading challenge, and are trying to arrange an excursion to somewhere other than the local park! We are part way through a small project on sharks thanks to my sister who helped provide the books and inspiration to Ishtar for the project.
We are slowly allowing some use of the internet but we are limiting that resource because we find that if she starts using the internet that is all she wants to do! I am finding it a struggle to keep Konrad entertained so that Ishtar has some time to herself, while also juggling a 6 week old baby, but it is a learning curve for all of us, and we never expected it to be an easy one. What is easier, is not having to get up early being sleep deprived to get Ishtar up and ready for school, only to have it raining so we all have to pile into the car, go to the school to find no parking spaces, get everyone out, go into the school in the rain, take Ishtar to class, return to the car in the rain, put everyone in again. Drive home, get everyone out, upsetting Konrad because we didn't go anywhere, get everyone inside while Konrad cries about the "broom broom", only to do it all again at 3 oclock and hope it isn't still raining then!
I am yet to get an appointment to review my registration acceptance and am dreading that coming because of how busy everything is, we have barely anything kept to show, have as yet no photo's of trips out and the organisation of those things I am finding really hard. Alot of our plans where based on having a substantial property to work on and gardens to establish, which is not coming anytime soon. although I hope it will be before xmas.
better go it is getting dark and dinner has not even been thought about.
As for schooling well we are not doing alot in that direction at the moment, I am trying to establish my ability to parent 3 children without involving any type of schooling structure first. We have written a few small stories, are taking part in the premiers reading challenge, and are trying to arrange an excursion to somewhere other than the local park! We are part way through a small project on sharks thanks to my sister who helped provide the books and inspiration to Ishtar for the project.
We are slowly allowing some use of the internet but we are limiting that resource because we find that if she starts using the internet that is all she wants to do! I am finding it a struggle to keep Konrad entertained so that Ishtar has some time to herself, while also juggling a 6 week old baby, but it is a learning curve for all of us, and we never expected it to be an easy one. What is easier, is not having to get up early being sleep deprived to get Ishtar up and ready for school, only to have it raining so we all have to pile into the car, go to the school to find no parking spaces, get everyone out, go into the school in the rain, take Ishtar to class, return to the car in the rain, put everyone in again. Drive home, get everyone out, upsetting Konrad because we didn't go anywhere, get everyone inside while Konrad cries about the "broom broom", only to do it all again at 3 oclock and hope it isn't still raining then!
I am yet to get an appointment to review my registration acceptance and am dreading that coming because of how busy everything is, we have barely anything kept to show, have as yet no photo's of trips out and the organisation of those things I am finding really hard. Alot of our plans where based on having a substantial property to work on and gardens to establish, which is not coming anytime soon. although I hope it will be before xmas.
better go it is getting dark and dinner has not even been thought about.
May 30, 2009
And so IT BEGINS
Well we have officially finished public education. Now we start on a deprogramming journey for a while and the start of our homeschooling journey too. I guess they are one in the same really.
Everyone seems to be asking me about the structure of things and if I have a daily schedule. My sister seems to think that it is more expensive to home school because you HAVE to buy all the texts and programs that schools use.
I am not sure how I will cope with all their issues but I can only try can't I :)
Everyone seems to be asking me about the structure of things and if I have a daily schedule. My sister seems to think that it is more expensive to home school because you HAVE to buy all the texts and programs that schools use.
I am not sure how I will cope with all their issues but I can only try can't I :)
May 4, 2009
It's Done
Ok, so no turning back now... not that I want to :)
Put the paper work in today it goes before the council on wednesday, if they are happy with it I will know soon, if they are not happy with it, it will go to the meeting on the 22nd of this month. So either way I should know before we actually plan to start our journey on the 1st June.
It might all fall in very close with baby being born, Ishtar's 7th birthday, moving house and completing renovations/selling house. But that just means the start will be the hardest part :)
I am eager to take on this challenge and try my hardest to reconnect with my little girl who seems so distant from me at the moment.
She is looking forward to the journey but continues to make sure that going to 'School" is still an option for her if she doesn't like home school. I am trying to reassure her, and finding it hard to explain that it will be very different but she just need to try it before she will know whether it is right for her and right for me.
We have been having a few topsy turby moments recently and things get a bit out of hand. I think my over emotional pregnant side is not helping matters and the fact that so much is going on in our lives right now is not doing her all that well either. She is struggling to understand some things and has a tendancy to lie to us if she thinks she will not be taken seriously in her thoughts. I am struggling to get her to understand that we are here to listen and keep her feeling strong and secure and that although we do pass over some things it is not because we don't think they are important it is because other things are more important at the moment.
When ultimately Ishtar's comfort in matters and understanding of them is what should be the most important thing to us it seems to get put behind because of the stress involved in all the other things that are going on!
Argh, I have to have this talk with her again and include her father but it will just be dismissed again or she will start talking about little things that are worrying her. I need to find a way to reassure her that all those 'silly' little things are not something she needs to be concerned about. Without dismissing them as unimportant.
Put the paper work in today it goes before the council on wednesday, if they are happy with it I will know soon, if they are not happy with it, it will go to the meeting on the 22nd of this month. So either way I should know before we actually plan to start our journey on the 1st June.
It might all fall in very close with baby being born, Ishtar's 7th birthday, moving house and completing renovations/selling house. But that just means the start will be the hardest part :)
I am eager to take on this challenge and try my hardest to reconnect with my little girl who seems so distant from me at the moment.
She is looking forward to the journey but continues to make sure that going to 'School" is still an option for her if she doesn't like home school. I am trying to reassure her, and finding it hard to explain that it will be very different but she just need to try it before she will know whether it is right for her and right for me.
We have been having a few topsy turby moments recently and things get a bit out of hand. I think my over emotional pregnant side is not helping matters and the fact that so much is going on in our lives right now is not doing her all that well either. She is struggling to understand some things and has a tendancy to lie to us if she thinks she will not be taken seriously in her thoughts. I am struggling to get her to understand that we are here to listen and keep her feeling strong and secure and that although we do pass over some things it is not because we don't think they are important it is because other things are more important at the moment.
When ultimately Ishtar's comfort in matters and understanding of them is what should be the most important thing to us it seems to get put behind because of the stress involved in all the other things that are going on!
Argh, I have to have this talk with her again and include her father but it will just be dismissed again or she will start talking about little things that are worrying her. I need to find a way to reassure her that all those 'silly' little things are not something she needs to be concerned about. Without dismissing them as unimportant.
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