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Category Archives: Homeschooling

Frog Walk

Friday, March 2, 2012

What a wonderful evening we had last night! We went for a frog talk and frog walk at the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens and it was absolutely delightful. Firstly the talk was great, secondly having access to the gardens at night was magical – trekking from pond to pond under the stars and of course, [...]

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Homeschooling starts on 1 January!

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Oh wow! Love learning with my kiddies – so many interesting traditions on New Year’s across the globe. What an awesome and amazing creature the human being is for thinking of all these wonderful celebratory customs over the years.

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What a wonderful thing

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The girls and I are having tremendous fun today – we’ve gotten stuck on colours and although Miya knows her colours very well, it has been great to revise and delve a bit deeper into the colour wheel with secondary colours, complimentary colours, colour mixing, warm shades and cool shades and so on. And of [...]

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Yebo Gogga

Saturday, October 15, 2011

What a fantastically wonderful exhibition we all attended today. I’m completely overstimulated and have a million and one thoughts and questions – all on the sciences and study of plants, animals and rocks and even virusses and bacteria, running through my mind – wonder how my little babies are feeling? We saw a working beehive, [...]

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8. Picnic

Sunday, July 31, 2011

There are few things as exciting for my girls as going for a picnic. ThJust this past weekend we went to a local park (well, sort of park), and had a little picnic along the (fake) river’s edge. The kids loved it – the food, the drink, the picnic blanket, the grass to run around [...]

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7. Dance!

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Dance with your child(ren)! This is an activity that should surely not be done once a year only, not even only once a month, but weekly – daily! Just pick up your youngster and boogie. Exagerate your movements, do funny turns, dip them and twirl them. And sing along! Dance with them and let them [...]

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6. Surprise Present

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Okay, okay, this is a bit of a “cheat” as it is not really something either Leia or Miya DOES with me, but it still adds up to an experience, and a special little one at that, so I’m happy to include it under this post category. Buy a “I just love you” gift. Not [...]

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5. Movie night

Friday, July 22, 2011

Tonight we made a movie night at home – with popcorn! Played a nice Disney fairy-tale over the projector and imagined ourselves in the theatre. I think I could’ve made it a bit more interesting though by making tickets that Miya could “buy” and present to the be allowed into the “movie theatre” – had [...]

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4. Visit a nursery

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Well, of course, with me as a mother, I’m sure there will still be many visits to nurseries and nurseries of all sorts. But today, our little treat was to go visit Yvette in her new nursery – an indigenous nursery. The two little explorers loved walking through the plants, looking at the different growing [...]

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3. Finger painting!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

With a lovely sunny winter’s afternoon, there was just no way we were going to sit inside the house, so I grabbed the little Jolly table and chair from inside and set up a little finger painting station outside in the sun. Miya was already playing in the sandpit and did not seem very interested in my [...]

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