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Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Things that you can do with Conkers
Things that you can do with Conkers
I have added some link(s) of what you can do with Conkers
10 Things Your Kids can do with Conkers (getoutwiththekids.co.uk)
What To Do With Conkers, Acorns & Hazelnuts - Activities for Kids (familydaystriedandtested.com)
15 Conkers Crafts (aka Chestnut or Buckeye Crafts for Fall (redtedart.com)
Simple Ways to Grow Conkers: 13 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
How To Grow A Tree From A Conker – Animal Enthusias Blog (animalenthusiastblog.com)
I hope you find them useful.
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Being Closer to Nature
Being Closer to Nature
I think that one thing that I love about home schooling is the ability to get closer to nature and to chose what items I use to teach my children and where I buy them from.
One thing that I have always done with my children is to teach them that second-hand is OK to buy despite Covid 19.
I was not brought up to use second-hand and was told to always buy new, but now that I am a parent I am happy to teach.
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Upcycle
is the new way to live life.
So one thing that I am looking at doing is to keep some of the things that I teach seasonal and to be more closer to nature and use what we have around use to learn who to live life to the full.
This year we were not really able to do any foraging like we have in the past, so I am going to use the items that I already have around the house and have not done any thing with yet.
What we will do is make then in to gifts for our family and friends and also to decorate the house with.
So please follow us during our gift making session over the next few day(s)
Monday, 6 December 2021
Should I teach my children R.E. if I am home schooling?
Should I teach my children R.E. if I am home schooling?
One of the things that I have been looking at is, should I teach my children R.E. now that I am home schooling?
Over the last several years we have been teaching our children a mixture of different religious ways of life due to our own family and friends beliefs.
A lot of this was done so that my children would know more about the ways that people are brought up and may and may not believe.
My self I was brought up Church of England with a Catholic and Protestant Parents and Grandparents.
Now that I am a parent my self we have gone back to a more Pagan up bringing with our own children and would still attend “Messy Church” once a month before lock down.
Messy Church
Iis "a way of being church for families". Its slogan is "Church, but not as you know it".
But when I look at my own up bring and being forced to do R.E at school we were only taught the basics that included the three following faiths.
Christianity.
Judaism.
Islam.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest religion, with about 2.5 billion followers. Its adherents, known as Christians, make up a majority of the population in 157 countries and territories, and believe that Jesus is the Christ, whose coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament.
Judaism
Judaism
is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the
collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization
of the Jewish people. It has its roots as an organized religion in
the Middle East during the Bronze Age. Modern Judaism evolved from
Yahwism, the religion of ancient Israel and Judah, by around 500 BCE,
and is thus considered to be one of the oldest monotheistic
religions. Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the
expression of the covenant that God established with the Israelites,
their ancestors. It encompasses a wide body of texts, practices,
theological positions, and forms of organization.
Islam
Is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion started by the prophet Muhammad in the early 7th century. It is the world's second-largest religion with 1.9 billion followers, or 24.9% of the world's population, known as Muslims. Muslims make up a majority of the population in 47 countries. Islam teaches that God is merciful, all-powerful, and unique, and has guided humanity through prophets, revealed scriptures, and natural signs. The primary scriptures of Islam are the Quran, believed to be the verbatim word of God, as well as the teachings and normative examples of Muhammad.
I personal hated R.E. due to the way it was forced onto me and the way that R.E classes also included other subjects like.
Personal Physical Education
Sex Education
Fashion
Health and Well-being
Religious Days and Events
Family Relationships
Charitable Beliefs
Death and the After Life.
Rights and men, women and children.
Plus may other subjects, however it was not a subject I enjoyed and I hated having to be made to read allowed in this lesson and to read about things like how sex before marriage is a sin.
I think to be taught this subject at any age for me I found very confusing and even with my own children the information about R.E. is some what hard to teach and explain.
I remember my children believing that Farther Christmas was at the birth of Jesus Christ and that all people who are Muslim are terrorist.
This is from being taught in state ran and Christian schooling.
State School
State schools or public schools are generally primary or secondary schools that educate all children without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation. State funded schools exist in virtually every country of the world, though there are significant variations in their structure and educational programmes. State education generally encompasses primary and secondary education.
A Christian
A school is a school run on Christian principles or by a Christian organization. The nature of Christian schools varies enormously from country to country, according to the religious, educational, and political cultures. In some countries, there is a strict separation of church and state, so all religious schools are private; in others, there is an established church whose teachings form an integral part of the state-operated educational system; in yet others, the state subsidizes religious schools of various.
Types of school
Types of school - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
So now I think to myself will I teach R.E at home?
One thing that was on T.V recently was Hanukkah and I did not minded my children learning about this and did a day on what Hanukkah was the same with Diwali.
Hanukkah is a Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE. It is also known as the Festival of Lights.
Diwali is a festival of lights and one of the major festivals celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and some Buddhists, notably Newar Buddhists. The festival usually lasts five days and is celebrated during the Hindu lunisolar month Kartika (between mid-October and mid-November).
Yet I think personal I will look at teaching a more Pagan way of life and teach about what I call “Holy Days” when required.
Pagan
Paganism
(from classical Latin pāgānus "rural", "rustic",
later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth
century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who
practiced polytheism or ethnic religions other than Judaism. In the
time of the Roman empire, individuals fell into the pagan class
either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative
to the Christian population, or because they were not milites Christi
(soldiers of Christ).
“Holy Days”, a day on which a religious observance is held.
Below I have added some links that you may find useful so that you can make your own mind up.
Should religion be taught in schools? - netivist
Four Reasons Why You Should Teach About Religion in School (Opinion) (edweek.org)
Religion in Schools Pros and Cons | APECSEC.org
Schools should teach religion. What they shouldn't teach is faith. (nbcnews.com)
Sunday, 5 December 2021
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
De-Schooling my son again
De-Schooling my son again
After trying to give my son the best state education that I can where I live and to try and get an EHCP in place for him I have gone back to home schooling again!
EHCP*
An EHCP outlines any special educational needs that your child has. It also covers the support your local authority must put in place to help your child: The EHCP is a legal document. That means your local authority has a legal obligation to provide the support in the plan.
So my aim now is to apply for one direct and to cut out the school direct.
For six years I have tried to get my son the support I feel that he need but with covid and budget cuts I have been unable to archive this.
So I have chosen to put his health and wellbeing first and have stated to home school him again.
That way I can give him the one to one support I feel that he needs at this moment in time in his life and focus on his strengths and work ion his weakness.
At the moment my sons main weakness is manual dexterity.*
*skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands.
So this is a skill I believe needs working on the most before any thing else can be achieved well.
My son is also left hand and due to this a few things need to altered to help him, today you can get things like left handed scissors.
https://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/
Again I feel that in main stream school these needs where not met and that equipment was not provide for my sons needs due to being left handed.
So I will look at how I can help him improve his manual dexterity at home.
Just like learning to use any part for your body at times you may need help and the right tools to achieve this.