A family's homeschooling, lifestyle and adventures.
November Activities and Adventures. November Activities: Homeschooling. School ends for the year. By mid-November we had completed our homeschooling goals for the year and the children were free to enjoy some downtime. Little farm boy. Between the tractors and the horses the children were hardly at home. Murray John spent his days driving anything and …
Learn these 4 Intelligence types, in order to boost your child’s overall development. Parent’s Goals. Our goal as parents, is to help in our child’s all round development, in order to set them up to cope and achieve throughout their lives… ‘Do not prepare the road for the children…Prepare the children for the road’. Tim Edmore. Parenting can be challenging …
October Adventures and Activities. October Activities: Homeschooling. Moving house. October seemed to fly by with the mammoth task of moving house, whilst still playing polo and homeschooling! Two weeks off school. The children loved the adventure of moving house, as they got to take two weeks off school, to help me complete the task. With …
September Adventures and Activities. September Activities: Homeschooling. Paula Joy Turns 12. September is Spring Time in Zimbabwe, where the temperature goes from cold to hot overnight. It is also Paula Joy’s birthday month. Paula Joy tuned 12 and had a wonderful day playing competitive family golf, followed by a fun seafood dinner. It’s such …
How I Embrace Freedom with Responsibility, Each and Every Day, as I Homeschool My Children. Homeschooling Freedom on the Farm. Homeschooled farm children certainly have the best of both worlds, as far as schooling, farm life, responsibility, space and freedom are concerned… I like to make use of what we have around us, in order …
August Adventures and Activities. August Activities: Homeschooling. Two week break. August began with a two week break, as we headed off camping in the Zambezi Valley. The joy about homeschooling is that I can set my own calendar and take breaks, as and when it suits the family. As we were heading off for …
A Family Day on the Zambezi River- from Chewore to Chikwenya Island. Camping at Chewore. Our yearly camping trip to Chewore, on the Zimbabwean banks of the Zambezi River, always turns into becoming long days filled with fun, sun and new adventures. The most adventurous day of this year’s trip was when we took a boat trip, up river, to Chikwenya Island. We left Chewore Camp early, …
July Adventures and Activities. July Activities: Homeschooling. Lockdown Again! July began with another lockdown. It is always so sad, when sports are cancelled and goals have to be adjusted accordingly. We had some polo tournaments and the annual pony club show lined up for an action packed month, -so were very disappointed. Instead, we remained …
We call these our Banana Miracles… Turbulent Economic Times. In Zimbabwe, we live in turbulent economic times. Organised crime is nothing new, but it seems to be growing daily. This is a country where people are poor, hungry and desperate, -always looking to make a quick buck. Our only defence against this situation is to …
June Adventures and Activities. June Activities: Homeschooling. School Year. Our academic school year runs from June to June, which is different from the mainstream schools. I have found that I have more time in the middle of the year to tackle the school programme payments and to organize the shipping. This takes the pressure off the …