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: 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 …
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 …
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. …
Activities. Homeschool: School continued for the first week in March. We had now completed 8 weeks of school on the trot. -Time for a break, so off we went to Cape Town, in South Africa, for a two week holiday. Once back the children picked up their school work, from where they had left off. …
Activities. Homeschool: February was a busy school month. Paula Joy and Murray John worked hard and managed to achieve all their school goals. Twice, during the month, I had to take Paula Joy to morning appointments, to renewing her passport and have her toe x-rayed. On both those days, I left Murray John at home …
Activities: Homeschool. We began school mid January just as our country went into chaos with strikes etc. We therefore decided to stay out on the farm and do school work until the dust settles. We shall start sport once it is safe for us to travel to and from Harare. That is the beauty of …
Activities: Homeschool. School is out! We shall begin again in January. We like to take a big break at Christmas so that we can enjoy the farm. This year we are ending ahead in school having started some of next year’s work. The ACE program is a system with constant small tests so we don’t …
Activities: Homeschool. We completed the school year by the middle of November even though we took two Tuesdays off to ride. So wonderful to be able to be flexible like that. Paula and Murray took to selling Bananas, each week, when they were in Harare for sports. A great exercise to see how to …