Home Education
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Formative Reads: Some books for the journey
A long-overdue project that I’ve been meaning to tackle is compiling a list of the books that have formed us on our home education journey. Some I have read; others…
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Catching Up
I’ve been away from this space for too long, and I’m ready to start putting it back at the top of my to-do list! For one thing, I do enjoy…
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Finding a Weekly Rhythm, Not a Rigid Daily Schedule
One of the main challenges of homeschooling is figuring out how to schedule your homeschool day. You’re not just organizing lessons; you’re weaving together the academic needs of multiple children…
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A Simple Bible Memory System To Give Your Child The Heritage Of God’s Word
A significant benefit of home education is the freedom to prioritize learning about God and the Bible within your daily schedule. It is such a blessing to start the day…
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How to Start Gentle Homeschooling with Memoria Press in the UK: A Parent’s Guide
When my youngest was approaching 4 years old, I started thinking about introducing some structured homeschooling into his day. He was already participating (not regularly by any means) in our…
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Why A Home Library Is The Best Investment You Can Make
For years I have swooned over bookshelves and libraries: a public library, a family’s personal library, and bookshelves in random charity shops filled to the brim with books, artefacts, and…
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Hello Again. It’s Good to Be Back.
Our home library Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve written here, but it is very exciting to be back after a blogging break. As you can imagine, a…
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Spending Time Outdoors
We are still in the middle of the British winter, and I am starting to feel it. The kids have been cooped up indoors for many weeks now so today,…
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Getting Into the Swing of Things
Conveyor belt of doom Getting into the swing of things after a long winter break is always a bit of a challenge. Our week was jam-packed with the restart of…
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His Mercies are New Every Morning
Special occasions and Ikea On the first day of January, we started the year off by going to Ikea! I wanted to buy a couple of things that would help…
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Advent 2021 at our Home
Advent and Christmas was always a special time growing up as a Christian kid in the Middle East. The anticipation and the expectation of the birth of Jesus, nostalgic Christmas…
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We joined a Classical Conversations Community!
It had to happen. We finally bit the bullet and joined a local Classical Conversations Community two months ago in October. In September 2020, we had joined CC after much…
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Arrive! – Homeschooling the Third Trimester and the Arrival of Baby
This is part three of a 3-part series on Pregnancy and Home Education. Click here for part one and part two. The first half of the Third Trimester was pleasant and…
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Thrive! – Homeschooling the Second Trimester
This is part two of a 3-part series on Pregnancy and Home Education. Click here for part one and part three. I waited eagerly for the yellow daffodils to bloom…
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Survive! – Homeschooling the First Trimester
This is part one of a 3-part series on Pregnancy and Home Education. Click here for part two and part three. Around this time last year (Dec 2020), we found…
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Community – the Missing Element
This last year of homeschooling and CC has been enjoyable and rewarding but it has also been hard work done in isolation. If there has been one thing lacking in…
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One Year of Directing Classical Conversations – Without a Community!
Last year was an interesting year for us as a family. We deregistered our kids from school and then started homeschooling using the classical, Christian curriculum called Classical Conversations (CC)….
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Extra-Curricular Activities – How to Decide?
Depending on how you organise your week, you will usually find some time in your children’s schedule to fill with extra-curricular activities. And these days, there are a plethora of…
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One Year of Home Education in the UK – A review
Last year on the 1st of May 2020, we prayerfully decided to embark on the wild and wonderful adventure of home educating our 3 kids. Our decision was made relatively…
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Quiet Time
I tried my best to delay it, and that worked for a while. But then one day, they all dropped their naps, and I was just about ready to weep…
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Lessons learnt after 5 months of Home Educating
There are so many reasons why we chose to homeschool, and it has only been 5 months (!) since we officially started home educating our children in the United Kingdom….
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John 1:1-7 (ESV) sung in English and Latin
If you are doing Classical Conversations Cycle 3 this year, you know that we are learning John 1:1-7 in English and Latin. At home, we like to memorise Scripture using…
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Welcome to our new homeschool community in South-West London
Are you looking for a homeschool community in South-West London? If so, read on 🙂 Next week I launch a new Classical Conversations community in my home in Chessington. When…
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons Review – We finished it!
One of the first decisions we had to make when we removed our kids from school and started home educating was choosing a phonics program. My 6-year-old is a proficient…
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Homeschool Routine, Part 2
In a previous post, I wrote about how elements of our family worship formed our first homeschool routine. Later on, we added poetry, a bit of nature study, a devotional,…
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We de-registered our kids!
We finally decided to bite the bullet and de-register our kids from school two weeks ago. Fortunately for us, it was a rather seamless and uneventful process … not that…
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Classical Conversations UK
To know God and to make Him known. Classical Conversations Motto CC seemed intriguing. I went over to their website, which is based in the US and dived straight in….
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Homeschool Philosophy, Approach, and Curricula
Once we had decided to homeschool, my husband and I delved into the world of homeschool philosophies, approaches, and curricula. Again, like everything these days, there are so many options…
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Ed Emberley drawing books
I first heard about Ed Emberley when I did a random search for “drawing books for kids” on Amazon.com. His books have a lot of good reviews. Then I saw…
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Some Arts and Crafts we have done
I thought I would write a quick post of some of the interesting activities we have been doing from The Artful Parent. Below is a list of some of the…
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Starting to think about Art
One activity I was keen on doing with my kids during the pandemic (when we had endless hours and time together) was: Arts & Crafts. It is terrifying researching on…
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Big 5 and Life Skills
I did not know that “Life Skills” was an actual subject area until I started researching homeschooling! Since learning about it by browsing Facebook groups and blogs on Homeschooling, I…
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Adding more elements to our Routine
In my last post, I wrote about how our family worship time eventually became our first homeschool routine and Morning Time. Later on, as I did more thinking and research,…
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Family Worship as our first Homeschool Routine
One thing I am big on is routine. From the time my kids were little and especially when I had three kids under three, I used the establishment of routines…
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Supreme Objective
In my last post, I mentioned some of the books that helped me gain a better understanding of the Classical and Charlotte Mason philosophy of education. I also read Lou…
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Making the Decision to Homeschool
In my last post, I wrote about what we felt were the pros and cons of homeschooling in our point of view and specifically for our family. We looked at…
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Homeschooling Pros and Cons
As the days went by, my husband and I were starting to enjoy family time more. Usually, the prospect of having the kids at home all the time was daunting…
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School Restarts
I love this picture of the kids. I went to pick them up after school and surprised them with freshly baked blueberry muffins and warm chocolate milk in a flask….
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First Glimpse of the Homeschool
I was not homeschooled as a child, and neither was my husband, but we first came across this “mode” of education when we were living in Dubai, United Arab Emirates….
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The Beginning of our Homeschool Journey.
After much prayer, discussion, and research, we finally decided to “officially” begin our homeschool journey last month on the 1st of May 2020. It has been only a month so…
