In reality there is no such thing as a ‘typical’ home education week for us; we are interest-led and we tend to go with the flow as we feel this suits our needs. The freedom to do this is one of the many reasons we love home educating. However, this post aims to give a flavour of the types of things we might find ourselves doing and a rough gist of what our week might look like. So here is a brief summary of our (not) typical home education week:
Saturday
In the morning Squiggle played outside in the garden. She also picked some blackberries then helped to clean and feed our rabbits. After this we decided to head to the seaside at Southend for the rest of the day.
Sunday
We spent some the day at home then decided to pop to Milton Keynes shopping centre for a little while (where she particularly enjoyed the caravan show and studying the inside of a working clock)
Monday
We went to London Zoo for the day.
Tuesday
We played at home for a while (self- directed learning) then we decided to go to Paradise Park for the rest of the day.
Wednesday
We had planned to go to a local park to meet up with some friends in the morning then we also went to Leighton Buzzard park in the afternoon.
Thursday
We stayed at home today so I produced a hidden parcel that had arrived recently, which she was very excited about. It was a zip wire for her hex bugs! This of course inspired her to play with these for sometime, including lots of exploration and discussion about how they work. Activities she later chose included playing Reading Eggs and Maths Seeds on the laptop.
Friday
Most of our day was spent at the scout hut for art group then ‘meet up and play’.