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.
Activities: Homeschooling. May was a very busy homeschooling month. We enjoyed our freshly cleaned and painted office and pushed hard at achieving all our goals. With mainstream schools closed, most parents are trying to school at home. My latest post: ‘How can I Achieve Success whilst Schooling at Home?’ will help those of you trying …
Activities: Homeschooling. With Zimbabwe in shutdown, we pushed on with school for an extra two weeks, resulting in a long 13 week term. I decided we needed to keep going with schooling and then we can take time off, once the world rights itself. However, over Easter we took a two week break from school. …
Actvities: Homeschooling. March started off with our academic and sports goals set and we were all excited to see what the month held… This excitement lasted for about two weeks and then, as Corona Virus descended on Africa, all our sporting events were cancelled! Homeschooling is one very important aspect of our lives which has …
How We Received Our Miracle. Lock-down in Zimbabwe. This week Zimbabwe declared a 21 day lock-down, to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. The whole family needed to be on the farm for this period, which meant a very busy few days for me in town, getting organised to be on the farm for the …
Activities: Homeschooling. February began with a new incentive, aimed at helping the children produce better quality work… I decided to give them financial rewards for Pace Test results. For Zimbabwe children a few US dollars is like receiving gold, as the US dollar buys so much more than our local currency. With this new incentive, …
Activities: Homeschooling. School started on the 2nd January for us, as we wanted to achieve a week of schooling, before we went travelling. We began by reading our goals from the previous year and chatting about how some goals had been easy to achieve, whilst others had been more difficult. The goals that we had …
Activities: Homeschooling. There was no school this month, which gave me time to catch my breath and do things I never normally get time to do. This meant tidying up and planning for the next school year. The children had a few responsibilities this month, as they needed to continue to practice their music and …
Activities: Homeschooling. Once we reach November it is always exciting for the children, as they suddenly realize that their school year is almost done! By the middle of November, Murray John was able to head off farming, having completed his school year, but being older, Paula Joy has needed an extra few weeks to finish …
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 …
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 …