monday was a home ed at home bookish kind of day. SB doing lots of music theory currently as has up and coming grade 5 theory exam. She then had ballet class [working for grade 5] and gym. BB pottered around, did a lot of reading – she has done a reading explosion really, which is great 
Tues was v much an out and about day. in the morning was pottery group, one of BB’s favourite things, and in the afternoon SB had english lit group at a museum. so v sociable day then both had swimming.
weds was last wodensmeet, and em, merry couldn’t make it 
and i could only go in the afternoon, the DH took the girls before, and Babs could come with her family. BB and R being with each other, which is fab Anyway, to make it a fun celebration we did tie dye such a home ed cliche but such fun
dh brought science – comparing mentos in differnet fizzy drinks – they had such a fun time
it has been a fab group and we have had such a lovely time altogether that it is so sad when things end, but streams and pebbles, and things change! will miss regularly seeing zoe, merry and families but hope their kids have a fab time at school.
we did also find out that we had been matched through en famille and were really excited as the family looked a really excellent match.
unfortunately the family is worried about home ed, so we found out on the thursday it wasn’t going to go ahead tho en famille are looking for another match. What a rollercoaster! It must be hard to think that home ed might work if you haven’t ever experienced it, or come into it so late. I am hoping that another family will see it as another opportunity to experience something different and widen horizons, and we’re not averse to using brought over maths books, or a list of science or history topics, for example. we’ll see. This has some of the wide range of books we use with SB, but obviously we have all the resources down to when she was preK, and now some more added [will be due an update in Jan] and the photoblogs above show what a home ed day might look like, as i don’t tend to blog all the she did maths, she did english etc! fingers crossed!
thurs was again mostly bookish, tho BB had a hospital appointment. then in the eve it was cubs and guides for the girls
tomorrow they are both going to a glass workshop which sounds fab.
hurray for tye dye etc, I don’t care if it’s a Home Ed cliche, it’s one of our favourite things to do (in fact, it felt very very odd not to whip out the elastic bands when I was overdying my Kentwell wools!)
Hugs for the other bits though. It’s a shame that the other side of the En Famille exchange weren’t sold on the idea of home ed as it happens in your house (I suspect their fears would be more than founded in ours, structure not being something I am good at providing!) Here’s hoping that someone else equally suited to your family will pop up quickly.
Must do tie dying with C. She’s been asking for ages. Years! I loved machine dying all my newly acquired towels :-).
The advantage of a blogging family is that the exchange is very well recorded and I know C’s Maman found that very comforting when we had their daughter. She could see and had photographic evidence of how much R was doing as in the telephone conversations R would forget all the many things she had done!
Sounds like the end of an era, but that always brings on new beginnings and new things to explore. Fingers crossed you find another exchange family.