A family's homeschooling, lifestyle and adventures.
We are a busy family of four. Therefore each month we love to share all our homeschooling and sporting activities as well as our farming and travel adventures.
Our Homeschooling Adventures and Activities May-June 2024 Homeschooling Adventures May-June 2024 Homeschooling. Busy Polo Season. Our homeschooling adventures and activities in May and June are always very busy and stressful, as we have polo practice and/or tournaments every weekend! The children are put under pressure to get their schoolwork done before the weekends. Often, we …
Our Homeschooling Adventures and Activities. Homeschooling. School on the move… A large part of our homeschooling adventures and activities lives is spent travelling between the farm and Harare. With the A.C.E school programme we are able to travel with our books and work offline, wherever we are. ACE Programme. I specifically did not want an …
We may be on a Houseboat Adventure, yet Life Skills are Being Developed. Developing life skills through a houseboat adventure creates an amazing opportunity for our children. Therefore we use our annual seven day houseboat trip as a learning tool. This is achieved by them embracing the Kariba experience and helping out with all aspects …
Homeschooling Activities Jan-Feb. Homeschooling. Goal Setting. It was back to school on the 2nd January. We started by checking our last year’s goals, going through what we’d achieved and what we had not… It’s amazing how measuring goals helps the children to focus on future goals and dreams. We then set our 2024 goals for …
Our Homeschooling Activities for Nov-Dec: Homeschooling. Busy Year End: November and December were extremely busy months with lots of sporting activities, from cricket and golf, to horse-shows. We had to push hard to get all our academic goals achieved for the year, resulting in the children having to do Saturday school most weekends, whenever they didn’t …
Sept-Oct Activities. Homeschooling. A school break – to go fishing! Our homeschooling activities and adventures continued through September and October. Starting with what the kids love most… A two week break from schoolwork, to go on a fishing adventure. Our annual fishing and camping trip to Chewore on the Zambezi River is definitely the children’s …
Camping and Fishing in the Wilds of Africa, Chewore, Zimbabwe. Spring is the time of year for our annual camping and fishing trip in the wilds of Africa at Chewore Campsite along the Zambezi River. Serious Planning. This is always a major expedition, which takes weeks of planning and organisation. To make matters more difficult, …
July-Aug Activities: Homeschooling. It has been a hectic two months of homeschooling sports, mainly polo, with loads of weekend travelling. Thankfully, the children have learned to homeschool around their sports, travel and other activities. We have pushed hard through these last two months, trying to get a lot of school done, just to keep up …
April-June Activities: Homeschooling. Life gets extremely busy from April onwards; as we head into the winter polo season. Family Visits. April began with visits from family, so the children took a week off school to enjoy their cousins. This was followed by an April houseboat trip on Lake Kariba, accompanied by grandparents and a grand uncle. …
Jan- Mar Activities: Homeschooling. School Breaks. January began with a few weeks of concentrated homeschooling, before we set off, to Nyanga, where we enjoyed a week of rest around loads of fun activities including golf and exploring. We love being able to take small breaks, as and when we can, and the kids just love …