Hello and Welcome to our school room!
Yes that is the sink in the corner, and the fridge over by the window.
Our desktop doubles as our kitchen table and has to be cleared many times a day.
Our library shelf is jammed with atlases fighting for space with cookery books.
In short what I'm saying is that we live in a house that's far too small for us and perhaps it shouldn't be but I feel that that is one of the biggest factors in our homeschooling journey.
So this will not be one of those beautiful blogs written by beautiful American women with beautiful tribes of beautifully behaved offspring in their beautifully organised, sorry 'organized' , dedicated schoolrooms, making everything beautifully with their beautiful hands. Although in my moments of self doubt I very much wish that I was one of them.
Instead, you get me, I feel like apologising for that.
I'm Lux, I'm thirty blah blah and I live in North of England, although I am Scottish really and spend a good deal of my time feeling like an exile. I live with my Beardy man and our son, tiny Indieboy,3, and my daughter, Gelibean, 9, in a terraced house with no garden and no personality, it was only ever a stop gap but it seem's to have stretched and stretched and we have thoroughly outgrown it.
My Gelibean has been educated at home since we moved here 4 years ago and discovered that the schools here were slightly less desirable than the precious little village school of thirty pupils we had left behind in Scotland, and so after, 4 months of school and me quite heavily pregnant, Geli and I began our homeschooling journey.
We relied quite heavily on workbooks in those early days, but since that point i have tried almost every approach that there is, our current approach is a bit national curriculum, a bit Montessori, a bit Waldorf, a bit autonomous, a bit radically unschooling and a bit iplayer led. In the last few months my tiny Indie boy has begun to join us at the school table and they're even beginning to work on things.......together!!!!! With almost no screaming!
So, after all this time, the thoroughly disorganised me has decided that writing a blog will perhaps help both me and the kiddlies to focus a bit more. My theory being that if I write online that we're doing a project on the Middle Ages, which we are, the temptation to abandon it halfway through and shove it unfinished underneath the bookcase to gather dust until next September when I go through my annual burst of organisation and chuck it in the recycling bin.
So welcome, welcome, one and all, we'd love to hear from other home educating Mamas and kiddlings, it'd be lovely to hear about other families journeys.
Hugest Hugs and Cheers and Welcomes to Everyone from
Lux, Geli and Indie Xxx
