home education - Polly Jemima

Exploring the Zoo One Animal at a Time: A Free Printable for Curious Kids

One of the joys of home education is following your child’s natural curiosity, and there’s something magical about the way kids light up when they learn about animals. If you’re...

A delightful Zine for Kids

I’ve known the amazing Dotty Delightful for many years, and have long been a fan of her beautiful artwork and the positivity she spreads online. I’ve several of the zines...

Back to the old Home Ed routine….

September, and we are ready to be back to our ‘usual’ home ed routines after the summer! It’s 17 years since I made the decision to home educate – and...

Another year of home ed plans

I’ve had a few messages recently asking about what home ed looks like for us, what ‘lessons’ we do etc, so I thought I’d do a little update on where...

Wrapping up another home ed year….

When I decided to home educate back in 2007, I didn’t think about how long we’d be doing it for, or how many children! Back then we had two, Lola...

10 activities to keep your kiddos occupied through lockdown

Two weeks of lockdown done. Are you all finding your new normal? We’ve had moments when everyone has run out of patience, and the kiddos have had enough of being...

Home educating right now…

Week one of lockdown done. How are you all doing? I’m sure, like us, there have been good days and bad days. I think we’re all starting to settle into...

Practical tips for Home-educating mulitple ages

I often get asked how I manage to home educate different age kiddos, how it works, what our days look like, how I manage to balance everyone’s different needs. Firstly,...

A little homeschooling update for the New Year

A couple of slow weeks over the festive season seems to have done us all the world of good… by the beginning of last week, we were all ready to...

This Homeschooling Life – a look back at November

Ah, November. I’ve been sat here trying to think of something to write for the past ten minutes. It’s been one of those months when I don’t feel like we’ve...

Homeschool | October in review

October felt like a good month. We’ve found our groove at last after the summer, happily falling back into new {old} rhythms. I try to find balance over the course...

Homeschooling | Our year plans 2017-2018

This post has been sat waiting for me to write for the past four weeks. I actually made our plans for this coming ‘school’ year right back at the beginning...

And that was April – This Homeschooling Life #21

April seems to have flown by {I’m sure I say that every month}, but with two weeks of the month taken up with the Easter Holidays I felt a bit...

Finding our flow – This Homeschooling Life #20

March was a really good month, homeschooling wise. We made a few changes to our daily rhythm/routines that work a lot better for all of us, and I finally felt...

This Homeschooling Life #19

I felt like we hit the ground running this month, in terms of homeschooling terms at least. We’ve really settled into our new rhythm and it’s working so well. Years...

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