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Spanish exchange week 8
So we are back into home ed mode with a bit of encouragement! I have made sparkly new star charts for all the girls. Sb’s is mostly gcse work. She hopes to take chemistry [CIE igcse], maths [edexcel a...
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Spanish exchange, week 9
This week was a pretty sociable week, and also a fair bit of work from SB on her gcse subjects, and SpD on her english. she is really liking the printed worksheets for EFL and going well on her history...
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Spanish Exchange, week 10
so at the start of the week the 2 older girls were still at Kentwell. unfortunately a rainy day for them. They came back happy, bubbly and exhausted! they clearly had a fab time. And thankyou to izzy...
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Spanish Exchange – week 11
SPD and SB went off to Yorkshire to join our friends SOTP monday – weds. By Train! SB has already done this journey once before, so we were reasonably certain that they would make it up there! they had...
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whiskey cat
we have loved you for a crazy 18 years from kitten to cat. you have given us lots of verbs and nouns – whiskling about, whiskey hole etc. now i hope your passing tonight will be gentle. we will miss...
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spanish exchange – week 12
time flies in an exchange! SPD has improved greatly in English, and is definitely a part of our family! Monday was monthly rollerskating homeed meet and all 3 girls really enjoy this. fair bit of...
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Spanish exchange – week 13
so after a busy week, we should have had a quiet one! somehow our homeed doesnt seem to look like that any more! just busy busy busy. Monday was a pretty normal worky day, with the older girls having...
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Spanish Exchange – an update on the education
finally a week were some education definitely went on of a book nature! As a home education journal, there are some real gaps in home ed details! It is mostly a catalog of exchange. SO a quick sum up...
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Spanish exchange – week 14
a more book focussed week, as we needed it TBH! so lots of focus on learning in a more traditional style. SB also went to arts award for her silver. I am a bit concerned at how overextended she is!...
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Spanish exchange – week 15
you may have spotted that SpD hasnt gone home after 3 months! when she arrived her mum asked whether it would be a problem if she had nearer 4 months, and clearly it isnt. so we said fine and what a...
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my baby’s gone!
well, my spanish daughter! we had a fab time, and hope you come back to visit
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Chooks!
temporary accommodation for 3 hens – a lilac rock that might or might not have lilac eggs, a mottled leghorn with white eggs with perhaps blue speckles, and a typical farmhouse with brown eggs
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Spanish exchange – week 16
It is suddenly such a shock to think of SPD going home. She has become one of the family. we love her company, her laughing, her passion for awful chick flicks and will miss all that. the craziness...
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A childhood of ballet
SB was really keen to do ballet when she was little, so enrolled into the ballet school in the village approximately 10 years ago. She took her grade 6 last week. Due to time pressures, not least exams...
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A nerf gun party
So, well, catching up time! what did we do after SPD left? carried on as we did. got some chickens. BB had a hurriedly thrown together birthday party. We arranged a nerf gun party in the village home....
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ouchy hips and christmas camp [woot!]
the next week had a lot of lasts in it – mostly SB’s temporary last judo and actually forever last ballet. Still ploughing through the home ed, playing a bit catch up for the fun she had when SPD here....
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gotta work it
Poor SB has been really stuck into working on return from xmas camp. there just isnt very much time before she goes to spain for 3 months, and whilst she is there she wont be doing any english or...
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christmas is coming
and there is so much work to do! not helped by the fact that our electrics are old, and clearly put in by an electrician many years ago without an obvious plan. so DH has had to take half the house...
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hallelujah!
SB and i went to a messiah workshop that had been advertised through the county windband. i think i forgot to say that SB got into the county windband – woot! and that she had a fab time on their first...
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weds4ed and other bits and bobs
blogging on a roll today! SB is doing an english paper at the moment, so i am distracting myself from trying to help. so, what other things have happened? clear weds4ed. we had a lovely pre-christmas...
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