A family's homeschooling, lifestyle and adventures.
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: 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 …