A manic few weeks

We are going to be maxed out over the next few weeks and therefore I am so pleased that we made the decision to home school. We have half term activities, five days of filming and then our trip to Chicago and New York. I can't wait. Isabellas education for the next three weeks will work differently because there won't be the time to sit and do school work at a desk.

This inspires me to find different ways of teaching. We will be learning about our environment and the places we are visiting. We will play games and write a diary etc. I suppose I find that instead of learning how to read and write in the conventional way, we tend to put the ideas of reading and writing into everyday life straight away. So instead of learning how to read and then maybe learn about spelling and then maybe discuss the language, all ideas get put into one and everything is learned about as a whole, not in sections. History becomes, English, Geography and Maths all together instead of thinking of them as seperate subjects.