The Maths Gnomes

These are the maths gnomes that I made.  We are using Waldorf in P's homeschooling.  The gnomes have wonderful stories which help with learning the four processes.  So here are Gnome Plus, Gnome Minus, King Equals, Gnome Times and Gnome Divide.
We use the stories from http://ebeth.typepad.com/serendipity/gnomes-and-gnumbers-a-mat.html.

6 months since I posted last!!!

Not very good at this, am I!!

Since July Phoebe has:

• Looked after baby ducklings
• Visited Stonehenge
• Gone body surfing on the beach
• Attended an open-air art exhibition
• Gone to a Wood Fair
• Learned about Egyptians
• Completed an intensive non swimmers course
• Finished a term of beginner swimming lessons
• Moved up two classes in swimming for this term
• Attended a home-school astronomy day at the local observatory
• Gone to Forest School once a week
• Been trick or treating
• Almost learned to to a somersault in trampolining on her own
• Won a silver medal and qualified to county level in trampolining competitions.
• Learned about Afghanistan where her oldest brother is serving at the moment.
• Made lots more butter, bread, yogurt and cakes.

So here's to writing more on what we do in 2014.

It is going to be a busy year!

My eldest son is getting married in August.

My second son is moving to Australia in April.

Some big birthdays, I will be 50 (!) and my third son will be 21.

The Lonely Bouquet

While picking up medicine at the doctors we found a lonely boquet on the steps

Pretty

It had a label which read

''Take me home

I am a lonely bouquet in need of a home!

Here to brighten your's or a loved one's day.

If you like you can post me on www.facebook/the lonely bouquet

Enjoy!"

So we did. P was very pleased with it and wants to do one of our own soon.  It is a lovely idea and people are apparently doing it all over the world.  I had never heard of it.

Stonehenge

We  could get quite close to the stones

Stonehenge is managed by English Heritage - Home educators can get in free if you book in advance.  This is the first time we have done this.  We met the education officers in the car park and once they discovered we were home educators and not a school (which it doesn't look like they get very often!)

they were very good and one talked to the grown ups and one talked to Phoebe.  All schools get a 10 minute introductory talk - I thought they wouldn't bother with us as there was only three of us.

Then - the best bit - they walked us to the entrance, past the long queues to get in and unlocked a turnstile and let us through straight away.  

Last time we walked around the stones she was inside me

We had headphones which explained about the stones.  P was always behind and we had to keep waiting for her to catch up.

Had to keep waiting for P to catch up with her headphones

Many people were taking photos of themselves 'planking' or doing funny jumps in front of the stones. P decided to do the same.

She was jumping, not doing a funny walk - my bad
camera skills

June

Trip to Legoland

Davids new kitten (we both want one!)

Binx

P's birthday

Do you think she was pleased she got Skylanders?

Favourite pressie apart from Skylanders was an electronics kit

And face paints

When we went to a local llama farm the lady in charge of looking after them got one out for us to have a 'play' with.

Meet Tom

Tom has long eye lashes

More May happenings

Livewires human body day

Horribly difficult human eye puzzle

Matts new bike ...

P wants one too

We had a home ed trip to Knockhatch with the animal encounter this time being hedgehogs, a monitor lizard and a baby rhea (I want one!) 

Fuzzy picture of P holding a shed tarantula skin

Outdoor water slippy slope

In the lake surrounded by very big fish!

Messing about with friends

At a local park

Planting up seedlings

Dinosaurs

We did a dinosaur topic and visited the Natural History Museum in London to see just how huge some of them were.

It was a sunny day for once, blue skies

Measuring up to a woolly mammoth

Quite scary animated dinos

Doing a paleontology kit back home, digging out a dinosaur