Tuesday 27 September 2016

Autumn Term 2016

A new school year and some changes afoot. I attended the CHESS conference where The Clarksons gave much encouragement for the home school journey. I would love to incorporate some of their ideals into our home.

Ben has started 1 day a week at Myerscough college doing his Maths and English GCSE's. This college is the only one locally(!) that take home educated students to do these exam courses, so we are all having a day trip out to Preston on a Thursday to take Ben.

Amy has joined our home school this year and we are settling into a new routine with her joining in too - its nice to have one keen child.

Monday 
Sports group and Gateway on alternate weeks with our meet ups with The Williams to continue with the Who Am I study for the older ones and Leading Little Ones to God for the younger 3














Tuesday
I purchased the Apologia Exploring Creation with General Science book at Cefn Lea this year and all 3 are working through this together!


In the afternoon Emma is coming over to join with Amy to look at some Geography - we are looking at some different countries in the world - starting with those in the United Kingdom

Wednesday 
Phil is continuing to teach the boys Computer science while Amy and I are thinking about how we can serve others in the church. Luke has asked to do more art so we are continuing with our artist study and doing some art work in the afternoon.

Thursday
Ben at college, Luke and Amy day out/visiting the Welbys and joining in with their activities

Friday 
Meeting up with the Williams and any other families who want to join us to do exploring nature with children


Bible - I want to try and include some bible memorisation this year in our morning time. I have been looking at The Fighter verses and hope to make a start with these

Read Alouds - I want to include more read alouds this year.
We have started with Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliffe and Our Island Story H.E.Marshall

Maths
  • Ben is studying the Edexcel Maths GCSE
  • Luke is working through Key stage 3 CGP maths book and doing some math on Khan academy
  • Amy has some workbooks form Grandma and we will do lots of games
English
  • Ben is studying for Edexcel English GCSE
  • Luke is working though a KS3 CGP workbook on Spelling punctuation and grammar and has a comprehension book on The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
  • Amy has some workbooks we have acquired and just enjoys writing when she has the opportunity. She is also continuing with Postal Bible school