The Informal Educator

I am not the most patient, gentle or particularly kid-friendly person in the world. In fact, if you asked my friends they may well con...

The most common question I am asked is : 'How do you know that they are learning what they need to learn?' Let me ask you guys...

It has been almost exactly a year since my last post on this blog. This was mainly due to me finding my feet in terms of time management. I...

In an effort to seek out good reading material for my kids I went to Sonlight and took inventory of their readers. I have heard ongoing goo...

Honey is currently reading Goodnight Mr Tom. I decided to do some research on it and found some wonderful educational packs online. T...

Honey is home. Today is her first official day. I have given much thought to how to play out this last term and due to her nature ...

Yesterday was my eldest daughters last day of formal schooling. Yes, it has finally come to pass. I had no intention of ever schooling my ...

It has been a mixed blessing kind of homeschool day. This morning was rather horrendous as we tackled two Conquesta papers (English and Ma...

 English is one of my favourite subjects to teach Lulu - there are so many options.  Spending time on grammar, parts of speech and the lik...

I have found it a bit of a challenge - this whole Afrikaans thing. In fact I have not addressed it all since Lulu came home 2 months ago. ...