A family's homeschooling, lifestyle and 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: 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. 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 …