Free stuff for Home Educators

One of my HE contacts has a fab blog here and is giving away free stuff in celebration of HE kids NOT going back to school! So just check out her blog and leave a comment about why you love HE and get yourself an entry into the prize draw :)

Clever boy!

Jack now knows how to turn the xbox on via the Guitar Hero guitar. He takes great delight in pulling the guitar out from under the TV cabinet and going straight for the on button, once it lights up he will then be entertained by flicking the toggle to navigate around the menu on the TV screen. He can definitely tell that what he does on the controller has an effect on the TV as he looks up to see what his actions have done!

In other (but related?) news I have recently joined my local home education yahoo group and am very excited to see that it is fairly active. There are language classes, a climbing group, story circle, trips to Doncaster Dome and I expect many more activities I have not yet seen advertised. I just hope it stays as active over the next few years until Jack is old enough to join some of the groups! But for now it looks promising and is giving me ideas about how I can direct his early years learning.

I'm going to be putting together a development review of his first ten months over the next few days, following a dispute on the parenting forum where I have been keeping a journal. I will try not to bombard this blog with too much at once and keep my backlog to the point lol!