Homeschoolin' class photos 2013

Last year we started a new tradition - class photos.

Taken at the start of each year. Homeschool-style.

Here is Lovely. 2013.

He is "officially" in Year 2 this year - though, really, the year you are *IN* doesn't mean so much when you are homeschooling does it? ;) He started his year 3 Maths workbook back in what would have been Year 1 and this year he is starting Handwriting Book 3. But, we are using a modified Charlotte Mason Year 2 (part-HUFI) curriculum this year and this is also the year he'd be in if he was "at school". He is 7.

And this is my Hug.
Who is now 9 :) And starting "Year 4".

Do you think they've changed much since last year photos?

Gift Wrapping - aka. Getting my Pretty On!

Sometimes, to be honest, it all gets a little too boy-ish around here.

I'm a girly-kinda-girl.
But I have 2 boys. And a husband. And a boy dog.

So, I lurve getting my pretty on when it comes to wrapping gifts for friends - particularly friends of the female persuasion! The boys often join in in their own way - making their own cards for birthdays and other events (they actually made two awesome cards this day, but I was too obsessed with photographing these butterflies to record them ;)

Do you enjoy gift wrapping? x

Currently reading / watching / thinking about...

+ Time Ideas proposes Salman Khan: The new Andrew Carnegie?

+ Dan Myer talks problem solving: Math Class Needs a Makeover

+ the Ground Breaking Inventors, Unstoppable Creators and Powerful Thinkers of the 1JR Class Blog (a class for 5 and 6 year olds :)

Is that not the coolest?! Thanks edte.ch

+ What are you feeling inspired by?

{image credit: I found this pic online this week and loved it but can't find the source. Sorry copyright Gods. x}

Make a Lego Calculator Cash Register

I can not claim any credit for this brilliance.
Don't you just love the stuff that kids come up with in their own time?

Hug plans on being a Lego designer when he grows up :)
I think he might be onto something.

Do your kids like Lego? A. x

Blessed. Our final days with the Gyuto Monks of Tibet.

I don't have the words.

To do these sweetest of days justice.

Blessed. And to-be-forever-remembered.

So I am just going to let the photos speak. x