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by Kath (a long time ago *blush* )

1) ONE HOMESCHOOLING BOOK YOU HAVE ENJOYED
I think John Holt (practically required reading for the Homerton BEd course many of my friends at Uni were doing) started me off on the HE path, but it was Free Range Education that finished the job ๐Ÿ™‚
2) ONE RESOURCE YOU WOULDNรขโ‚ฌโ„ขT BE WITHOUT
Books (or the library, if I’m allowed, as that way we get books, tapes, internet access, video hire…) – our whole world revolves around them ๐Ÿ˜†
3) ONE RESOURCE YOU WISH YOU HAD NEVER BOUGHT
Nothing so far…
4) ONE RESOURCE YOU ENJOYED LAST YEAR
I think both boys would put their Jolie Ronde French classes (although they started as after school club, so not really HE) fairly high on the list. Oh and their absolute favourite place is the Science Museum basement ๐Ÿ™‚
5) ONE RESOURCE YOU WILL BE USING NEXT YEAR
Just starting out with Sonlight Core K plus Science – an attempt to get some structure into things, but not sure it’ll work as we never seem to have time to keep to a schedule! Also making a start on The Story of the World – book 2 as we’re going to join with a family who’ve already done book 1 to do some of the activities ๐Ÿ˜‰
6) ONE RESOURCE YOU WOULD LIKE TO BUY
I would love to train as a Jolie Ronde teacher myself – could then have the materials to teach my children myself but also to offer classes to other HE families. I am a trained French teacher, but the J L materials and method really seem to work for younger children and it’s so much fun ๐Ÿ™‚ Shame it’s so expensive to do the franchise ๐Ÿ™
Otherwise, well, we invested in EH membership when we went to the Festival of History, as it was almost worth it just for that one event, and Bob’s parents have given us family NT membership as an early Christmas present… I keep seeing books I would love to buy, courses I know the boys would love to do and so on, but there’s nothing that really stands out just now. Maybe a round the world ticket for some hands-on geography :mrgreen:
8) ONE HOMESCHOOLING CATALOGUE YOU ENJOY READING
I’ve only looked at Halfmoonbooks and Sonlight; ordered from the former, got the latter second-hand ๐Ÿ˜‰ TBH, I’m not really into catalogues, except ones with good pictures to tear out and use for collage :mrgreen:
9) ONE HOMESCHOOLING WEBSITE YOU USE REGULARLY
Not really homeschooling, but we probably spend most time on BBC schools. The children also love uptoten and I keep coming back to muddlepuddle (of course!) and educationsense