A family's homeschooling, lifestyle and adventures.
The Whaley Academy was formed when my daughter started school at the age of 5 years old. We are proud of our Academy and strive for excellence and relying on God’s guidance. We like to share our difficulties, challenges and achievements.
Activities: Homeschooling. October is Harvest Month on the farm. Once the combine harvesters arrive, the children rush through their school work, so that they can go and spend their spare time in the combines. It is certainly a great incentive to get them to do their work as quickly as possible! Murray John managed to …
How Homeschooling Allows Us the Luxury to Train with the Best Coaches and Embrace Modern Sport. Today’s Sport. Time waits for no one! The world moves on, with or without us… Although changes are happening fast and furiously, -when it comes to sport, it seems nothing has changed since I was at school! -Why I …
Activities: Homeschooling. We had only two weeks of schooling in September, as the month started with a three day horse polo clinic, followed by a 3 day tennis tournament. One week’s schooling, before and after a week’s camping trip to the Zambezi River, competed the month. It is so wonderful to be able to take …
Activities: Homeschool. August saw some breaks to the homeschooling schedule. The children have completed 10 weeks of schooling in a row, so it was time to give them a week’s break, to relax and have fun. We have other breaks coming up, in September and October so we couldn’t take too much time off. We …
Activities: Homeschool. One frenetic Friday I needed to do a number of chores for the weekend. I left the children working in the school, whilst I got busy getting horses ready for polo, as well as sorting out decorations for the polo club. Paula Joy and Murray John both got stuck into their work and finished …
How do I Homeschool through Economic Collapse? As Zimbabwe’s economy collapses around us, we are all having to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. However, as parents of homeschooled children, and regardless of location, we always need to adapt to changing circumstances, from our health to our finances. Goals get changed, side-lined or delayed, which can …
Activities. Homeschool: Most of this month’s schooling has been done with an 180 kva generator growling in the background, as Zimbabwe plummets deeper into economic crisis. Most days we actually have no electricity! We are thankful to have power, even with it’s continuous noise, otherwise we would not be able to start school early each …
Activities. Homeschool: May was an interesting school month. Murray John was extremely excited, when the combine harvester came to harvest the Soya-beans. He would jump out of his bed at 5am- and proceed to tackle his school work, so that by 8.30am he was free to spend the day with the driver in the combine …
I thought I would share my typical, homeschooling mum, ‘on the farm’ school day. We are usually on the farm for Monday and Tuesday each week. My motto for each day is: ‘I can do all things through Christ,-Who strengthens me’. Homeschooling Mum’s daily timetable: 5.20am All alarms go off! My husband and I say …
Activities. Homeschool: When Murray John arrives at school with his bears on his head you know that he is feeling sick…… school has to be abandoned for the day. We continued school for the first two weeks in April. Once Easter arrived we took a break, to have fun with our visiting family from Botswana. …