Blog Housecleaning

I haven't used this blog for my Home Leaning Adventure for so long!
Lots of things are out of date and untidy.
I found a lot of broken links and so am attempting to tidy all that up over a few weeks (at least)
After that I am hoping to come back refreshed and eager to share the journey with you

Blessings,
 

A Very Vague Update

Well I am finally doing an updated post to my poor neglected Learning Blog.

Since starting lessons  this year I actually have found it hard to keep on top on the plans I made, mostly for the little ones. The progress of the little girls reading was not to my satisfaction and I am disappointed in what I achieved with them.
It is a constant battle for me to vary the creative side (my Alphabet Path ideas) and the actual more fundamentals of learning to allow the balance to happen.
I am trying and have been over this week to balance this a bit more and will be posting more achievements for the little ones soon as well.

Our older children have waxed and waned with their enthusiasm for the prepared lessons and the completion of these has varied too form week to week.

Partly this has been due to my lack of energy during my pregnancy, frankly it hasn't been until after Trahaearn was born that I recognised how tired I had been.

This seemed to not help the focus of the older children and the completion of set work. Especially towards the end of my pregnancy when most of the time was anticipation of the baby coming home and waiting for this to happen.

However I do know that the 'extra' things they attempted and achieved were quite numerous.
We had many books read, crafts attempted and completed and lots of games and outdoor time in the warmer weather.

We have adjusted our learning and chore schedules to help ease into the new life we have with our baby and I am hoping to get back to regular and more complete weekly reviews.

Blessings,

Weekly Review 10th - 14th August

Well I do need to start even though last week wasn't a good one for actually recording acheivements.

All the children were sick with the cold and some with throwing up as well.
We pretty much ditched any formal plans and the children when they were able read a lot of their assigned reading and anything else they felt like reading, when and if they felt up to it
Some had the cough quite badly and were under the weather for most of the week.
We seem to be at the end with most but a couple are still lingering and I hope they will be back on deck on Monday to start the new plans.

We had been to the library last week and have a box full of interesting library books so these have been passed around too.

Sometimes we played some 'parlor games' and cards as well.
As Stephen was home as well and he was sick too, we also spent time just being together.
Stephen did start the first Spiderwick book as an introduction to the Spiderwick Study we will start next week.

If I can keep this simple I may actually keep a record of what we do instesd of trying to write out a daily achievement list, which has never been finished due to my running out of time and energy for recording about mid week.

Blessings,