A family's homeschooling, lifestyle and adventures.
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 …
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 …
Against all odds… We have achieved greatness this year. -through blogging, homeschooling and just surviving in Zimbabwe. Pushing on through Adversity. Wow! Time certainly flies when one is busy, inspired and a mother… Achieving a year’s blogging, whilst homeschooling my two children, gives me an enormous sense of accomplishment, even though I am still a …
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 …
How Homeschooling Allows Us the Luxury to Train with the Best Coaches and Embrace Modern Sport. Today’s Sport. Time waits for no one! The world moves on, with or without us… Although changes are happening fast and furiously, -when it comes to sport, it seems nothing has changed since I was at school! -Why I …
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 …