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I’ve never really drilled spelling with the boys, but I got a great idea from my sister in law this week.  So, on with our reading on Monday I found 5 words for each of them, which they had to learn during the week and last night (Friday night) their Dad tested them.  They got [...]

Getting Crafty

I’m not a natural crafty person and I’m put to shame by my amazingly talented and crafty little sister.  She’s a qualified Play Therapist and Montesorri teacher and a Teaching degree to her name as well.  She now owns and runs a nursery school in Binyamina, Israel.  Any child would be lucky to be in [...]

Carnival

Very excited to be part of this Homeschool Blogging Carnival!

Kindle

Stefan is hot off the plane and back in Cape Town and all I can think about is my new Kindle and how it’s going to change my life HEHE. Being a Sonlight homeschool mom the first thing I looked at were titles in our Cores and already I found one of our favourites, Understood [...]

National Curriculum not binding on private education

Court confirms : National Curriculum not binding on private education Statement by the Pestalozzi Trust 25th March 2011 Judge  Cynthia Pretorius confirmed in die Pretoria High Court today that the state curriculum is not binding on independent schools and parents who educate their children at home. The judge rejected an application by homeschooling parents and [...]

Good Books

We are in our 3rd year of homeschooling with Sonlight and I’m always going on about the AMAZING books that have formed part of the childrens life ’memories’.  I decided to start a list of this books that really had an impact!  I’d recommend for your home library. P 4/5 – This I’ve done already with Chris [...]

Sports Day

I wish I had some photos already to post now, but I will have to hassle Stefan to send me some.  That is the main frustration about having this hugely talented and amazing photographer as a husband!!  The photos are shot in RAW, then need to downloaded, converted, edited and resized before being put on [...]

Christian’s Blog

I am really trying to encourage Chrisitan’s creative writing, but it’s such a task for him to sit to write!  I’ve decided to drop paper and replace it with a blog of his own where he can do all his creative writing.  I’ll work on his handwriting seperately.  His URL is http://christiansteenkamp.wordpress.com

Time 4 Learning

What a difference Time 4 Learning is making in our day to day schooling!  Previously, our Maths and Language Arts were both textbook based and were the biggest chore of the day.  It demanded my full attention and seemed to just drag on through the morning.  I kept having to tell the kids to focus [...]

Maths Revisited

That’s so like me to get ahead of myself!  There is now a completely new plan.  I got a referal from another homeschool mom whose 8 year old is doing www.time4learning.com and I’ve put Chris onto that.  He is loving it!  It will be great if this works out and I can continue with the [...]