Frogpond Home-Ed

31/01/2024

Saltash - Birmingham on Fri 2nd Feb. 12:00

If anyone would like to car-share with me and Neil Gribble for fuel contribution, give one of us a shout.

We can drop off at Exeter, Bristol, or Birmingham.

27/12/2022

Tiktok, cos I'm lazy 😁

26/02/2022

16/03/2021

17/01/2021

Bobby's really proud of himself this week 😃 he recieved 'Performer of the Week' from his performing arts group for doing a 2 minute monologue for his zoom group 😃
I'm really proud of him too, and so happy to see him looking forward to something so much each week and to hear the wonderful supportive feedback from everyone there.
This has really boosted his self-confidence and happiness recently 🥰

20/10/2020

Ruby says this isn't good 😕
She still has some of the leftover 'not good enough' which she had so much of when she was in school, and she doesn't believe me when I say it's amazing because "you have to say that because you're my Mum" 😏
She wouldn't even start it for ages because it would be 'too hard'. She just sat making horror makeup on her arm while I was drawing next to her.
Then I suggested she draw it on the canvas first and she was off!
What do you guys think?
My own half-finished sketch may be finished today, I'm not brave enough to paint like Ruby does 😱

08/07/2020

So lucky to have caught this amazing little creature moulting while I was giving the caterpillars new leaves today 😃

03/06/2020

Bobby loves cooking so we decided that he would start his Food Hygiene training with an online course and certificate!

He did get a bit bored midway through but he persevered and got a certificate to print at the end, which he's so proud of he's posted it up in the kitchen 😍

03/06/2020

Looking forward to reading this, recommended by another home-edder 🙂

30/05/2020

We've lately been obsessed with an animal and plant identification app called Seek.

I'm really happy that I can finally point out, "that's red campion" to the kids as we walk or cycle past. I've always wanted to do this but never knew there was an app 🤦‍♀️ (thank you Giselle Childs)

The funniest one Ruby found was called Nipplewort 😂

She can now point out 3 or 4 wild flowers by name; these are the real skills I want my children to learn 🌿🌷🌱🌳

27/05/2020

Theres an historic rocket launch this eve from Cape Canaveral, at 9.35pm The first ever commercial space flight, bringing private space trips a huge step closer.

Direct from America's space program to YouTube, watch NASA TV live streaming here to get the latest from our exploration of the universe and learn how we dis...

23/05/2020

Blackbird rescue operation 🦅🐈

A neighbour asked me to catch this injured blackbird on Thurs eve. He was bleeding a lot and very stressed, I didn't really expect him to survive the night but it turns out he's a feisty little fellow 😃

I bathed his wounds as quietly and quickly as I could, wrapped him and put him in a shoebox, Ruby helped the whole time.

He survived a couple of hours so I put the box in a cage with a water dish for overnight. He was alive by morning which was amazing; small birds so often don't survive the stress or blood loss 😔

So I let him out to see how he was moving. He started eating a strawberry straight away! Making no attempt to fly though so I re-caught him and covered him back up until we gave him a worm to eat, which the kids loved to see him do.

Today he's been out again but the wing is still drooping so, although all the rescue sites have said they're not taking animals due to covid19, I've emailed RSPCA for their advice.

In the meantime, meet Montgomery Blackbird 😁