{"id":25006,"date":"2018-07-24T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/?p=25006"},"modified":"2018-07-24T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:25:12","slug":"home-ed-diary-the-week-of-tie-dye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/home-ed-diary-the-week-of-tie-dye\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Ed Diary – The Week of Tie Dye"},"content":{"rendered":"

As most children are winding down at school I find we are really packing a lot into our home education before things get really busy. In fact this was the last full week of home education just the three of us for this academic year, as the teen finishes on a half day on the following Tuesday. This is our record of our home education – not because we have to but because I want to. I think it is nice to have something to look back on and so how far we have developed and grew.<\/p>\n

Monday 9th<\/sup> July<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since tidying up the 10 year old\u2019s room at the weekend we came across his old school work which included his work on the Vikings. So I got him to go through it with The Sensory Seeker and see if there was anything that he would like to do that his brother had. He decided that he wanted to make a top trumps kind of dragon card. I was really surprised at their computer skills and The Sensory Seeker quite happily filled in not one but two tables – selecting an image online as his dragon and then filling in the details.<\/p>\n

The Sensory Seeker then revisited some sheets similar to those that he had done previously – including one on German colours (which involved colouring in and writing out the colour) and a spelling test. I then got both boys to see how fast they could fill in a jumbled up times tables grid. The 10 year old also worked through some maths to help try to discover which areas he could do with some more support.\"maths<\/a><\/p>\n

After lunch they both played in the paddling pool for an hour and then took turns to play Fortnite. The Sensory Seeker played first and the 10 year old continued his maths work, and then the 10 year old played and The Sensory Seeker opted to peel and cut food ready for dinner again. \"boy<\/a>After dinner the 10 year old went out to play with his friends. He discovered that there was a pool to play in at the local pub (where one of the girls in his old class lives) so all 3 boys went round there (with myself) after dinner. Unfortunately a lot of the children had gone (probably to bed) and so the older two boys went back home and had a water fight amongst themselves. The Sensory Seeker stayed with me at the pub and went in the pool with some of the other children. We discovered that another family had left their old school and were currently being home educated (the second child from the 10 year olds class in the last few weeks, and his two brothers). I popped round to their house and spoke to their mother to see if she knew what groups and things were available and told her about the local Facebook group.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 10th<\/sup> July<\/strong><\/p>\n

Getting very excited about Festival season in the near future we experimented with an InterplayUK Fab Lab Tie Dye kit<\/a> we had been sent (RRP \u00a39.99)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"fab<\/a> \"fab<\/a>The dye only lasts for 45 minutes and we had totally not read that it covered 5 t-shirts (you can do other items) and after doing the two white tops I had bought for the boys we went in search of more white clothes to dye (and still had dye left!). Eventually we had dyed a t-shirt for all 5 of us and left them drying in bags as we went out for the afternoon.<\/p>\n

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