Week 1 Distance Ed...the beginning of our 6th year

As I look at my children growing ever so quickly, the times they are ever changing and in 2013 as I we embark on our 6th year in Distance Education I am left wondering how quickly time flies. Over the holidays I have been ever so relaxed about schooling the boys and the outcomes of their efforts.

I myself am not a graduate of this unique and engaging way of learning, this means that at times I feel like I am a square peg in a round hole. But as this year has rolled around, all of sudden, I feel like an old home tutor. I am not "going with the flow...like a dead fish" more like "floating my own boat"!

The job of being Mum and teacher can be so isolating and yet in a moment in can become the most rewarding job of your life.

Teaching your kids is all about priorities. My top priority is my family, and part of that is to ensuring that we remain balanced in our life, school, business, work, sport and play. I would by lying if I told you I get this right too but by god I try.

One thing I have learned is, it pays to be organised....
(this schedule is a new thing, I won't claim the idea but I have an expert...aka Mary Poppins who was able to sort me with this!)

We have designated areas for art and craft...

 I try to be inspiring...

I like to have things at their fingertips....

We indulge in wall graffiti, covering our walls with posters...

I try to be adaptable and flexible, sometimes we get thrown a curve ball...

And they love their reading corner...

Last of all I get them exercising...

and me too, even if it is just half and hour a day...