3 Kiwi Unschoolers

Soggy Bottoms Pig Farm, Homeschool Trip.

Nicky — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:05:28 +0000

Last week for our homeschool trip we went to an Organic pig farm, I have been to a pig farm before and this one was not quite what I had expected. The one I had been to before was concrete pens with the pigs in, this one was a farm, thats was all hills and very MUDDY paths, needless to say we were covered from head to foot in mud, I think the kids had a good time, I am not sure as from where I was standing all I could see was mud, a messy group of kids and a very sore leg for me from falling in the mud with rocks underneath. But you have to laugh about it all now that I am clean and warm at home.

History Fair Project!

Nicky — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:04:05 +0000

Well like i said in an earlier post Jessica has decided of her own steam that she wants to be a part of the History Fair, she has never done anything like it before and I was quite surprised that she was going to do it at all. She has found some books to use.

She is making a timeline of fashion through the years.

And drawing endless gowns and dresses, she even has a costume organised for it. But still there is a lot of work to do so we are hoping she can get it done in time for Wednesday.

Field Days Fun!

Nicky — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:17:33 +0000

We went to the fieldays in Hamilton last week with our friend Helen and her children.
Some of what we saw were just stalls and things for sale but we looked with great interest [well Jessica did lol] at the Kaimanawa horses on display.

I was fascinated with the Waikato University stall and there weeing cow[pictured above] I couldn’t get a photo as it actually did it’s business but you get the idea. The lady at the stall showed me her website and I spent a great deal of time looking through all her educational stuff.

This was the next great find in the same University stall, you get to actually milk the cow as you can see by Jessica’s great demonstration, and your reward for great milking is not Milk but of course chocolate coins as you can just see at the bottom of the photo.

This was a display of items made by people I think it is all recycled things but this boat was pretty amazing.

Then there was Jack’s favourite the Tractor racing.
All in all a good day out and even the bus ride back to the car was fun too.

Double Decker Bus Homeschool Trip!

Nicky — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:16:18 +0000

We went on another of our great homeschool trips, this time for a ride around Hamilton on a double decker bus.

Jack thought it was great fun and the kids liked the history of the bus and of course the Union Jack flag on it.

Horse Magic Homeschool Trip!

Nicky — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:14:37 +0000

We went to New Zealand Horse Magic last week on our homeschool trip, of course Jessica didn’t sleep the night before she was so besotted by the fact that it was to do with Horses.
We watched a show and saw the different breeds of horses all dressed up, then each child had a ride on a horse. Afterwards we went to the park for a picnic and home late to a cold house lol.
What a fun filled day, who knew school could be so much fun.

Unschooling at it’s best!

Nicky — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:12:41 +0000

This is when I feel we are really homeschooling, when my son can do something with his hands and really feel proud of his achievements. We got a cheap washing machine only a few weeks ago as we didn’t have one and due to finances had to be cheap, then of course it broke down after only a couple of weeks s I guess you could say I wasn’t too happy. I had the guy out to repair it once and paid him his fee, then of course with washing mounting I was pleased I could catch up on it again, 2 loads later, it broke down again.

The repair man had told me it was a block in the pump so said to my son “how do you feel about pulling the washing machine apart with mum and seeing if we can fix it, rather than paying again”, I mean how hard can it be?
He replied with “yeah I will give it a go”
So we went forth and took the machine outside, took the pump apart and fixed it ourselves, before this I had no idea what part the pump even was.
But 10 mins later it was back inside, power on and hey presto it worked. I have now done several days of washing and still working fine, fingers crossed lol.

Thursdays Gym Day!

Nicky — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:10:34 +0000

The boys made a hut at out of the mattresses at our gym session this week, Jack was so proud of it.

Jessica is getting really good at the Hula Hoop now I remember the days when I could do that really well, although you would think now that my hips and but is bigger I would be able to do it but not for the life in me can I get the hoop to stay in the right spot.

Jessica showing me some of her moves.

WooHoo way to go jessica.

Number Jacks

Nicky — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:49:48 +0000

There is a TV show on Sky Television called NumberJack’s, well I think this must be our version of it, Jack has been trying to count and is asking questions about numbers so…………

We made up this game jumping along the cushions and counting them as he went then to make it more difficult we would vary the numbers and ask him to jump on them, we also had him putting the corresponding number of beads on the number boards, he loved it and did it for ages.

Welcome To Our World!

Nicky — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:46:09 +0000

Welcome to our blog, this is a new blog for me as I felt like a change was needed, so here we are, I hope you follow us on our families journey called LIFE!!!!!