Paper Plates

It's been a much needed couple of days staying mostly in and around the home with admin and chores to catch up on and some planning ahead. Twin Dad has returned home enabling me to get out for a couple of hours solo for a much needed and 3 years long overdue hair appointment.

Plenty of play has happened mostly in a state of dressing up as Monster High characters. Lego has been tipped out across the floor and built and then cleared away, painting has happened, music enjoyed, Minecraft in single player mode and multi-player mode, lots of Monster High Drawings, Littlest Pet Shop has surfaced again, bike riding, water splash park, Monster High Wii Games, new 3DS game all in the name of wanting and needing to do our own thing.

Twinbo 1 has spent 3.5 hours at Theatre rehearsals today with another session taking place tomorrow.

Anything else structured? Well, half an hour each of Maths for the eldest and we have tried to make a paper plate ball structure. Twin Dad managed to staple it together for it was proving quite tricky.

Twinbo 2, on the back of our visit to the Teddy Bear exhibition at Portsmouth City Museum last week, decided to look up information surrounding his teddy bear which previously belonged to me; teddy in question is aged around 32 years old. We found the brand!

He's also been looking at pixel papercrafting Minecraft skins.

Time for some family TV viewing time.

Home Education Does Not Stop

It's true no matter what we are doing home education does not stop for it is a life learning way of life in our household. To believe that education only happens during certain hours in a certain place in only a structured or constructive manner is a ridiculous idea in my view. All learning is equal and once you have accepted this the potential is massive.

Still on the path of all things Sherlock we've added The Young Sherlock to our list of related viewing. Admittedly, the girls fell asleep and I kept dropping off but the eldest two saw it through and I gather they enjoyed it. I think the falling asleep was more a result of being snuggled in the big bed together than the film being rubbish; we were just too tired at the end of another busy day.

Citizenship discussions touching on discrimination and prejudice but typically spanning other topics including History, Geography, Science and English. 

Science experiments are taking place in the kitchen with growing bacteria on beetroot.

The afternoon saw us at our friends house for some more happy social time including Trampolining, Hex Bugs, dressing up and Walkie Talkies. Four hours passes really quickly when you're having fun in good company.

Clearly by the very way this post is hurriedly thrown together for recording purposes, home educating learning may never stop but household chores do fall by the wayside. I am behind and need to catch up. Thus it is now the chance for those household chores to be given the necessary time but damn there's that learning opportunity again!

And here's a drawing from Twinbo 3 (6) to brighten up the post.

Middle of The Week

Most of the day has been consumed with resolving *playing nicely* issues generated on the home ed Minecraft multiplayer server we belong too. *sigh* 

In this household we operate on a very simple policy which is *if something becomes too unpleasant then we no longer participate*. Thus, we will be having a much needed break from the server to let the dust settle and learn a few lessons on how to *let things go* and deal with *how to deal with things that upset us and feel very strongly about in a positive way*. *sigh* and *breath*

Wednesday Adventure Playground went ahead as normally scheduled and again a happy fun actively social groove. We continue to really love this group.

I suspect the evening will be shaped by Sherlock Holmes as it was last night. Some of us enjoyed The Hound of The Baskervilles last night and the rest of us are going to watch what me missed last night, this evening. 

I am also previewing the Benedict Cumberbatch/Martin Freeman collaboration as Holmes/Watson TV series and hope I can share it with our eldest pair for I am totally and utterly hooked. It's a borrowed series via Lovefilm but think it's one to purchase for keeps and certainly I would be happy to re-watch.

Might start our new art project after dinner too.