Workbooks, ants and play dates!

When we first started thinking about home ed my main concern was socialisation....would our children have enough contact with children? Would they have access to lots of friends if they wanted? Would they feel on the fringe of society or misfits? All I can say is that so far we have so many play dates I can't fit them in to our diary! It is absolutely wonderful watching friendships grow and social confidence soar! 

We tend to do an activity at home for a couple of hours a day and then the rest of the day is for play.

It's wonderful to watch how the children grow into things, 6weeks ago if I gave the kids a workbook they would have refused to do it, today they were so excited by having a workbook and I couldn't stop them filling them in!

Cute!

A bit of painting...

Freddie was given an ant world for his birthday ( an ant habitat) which he was so excited about! We have had pet butterflies, snails now we will have ants! We set it up today and went hunting for ants. We need 40 worker ants! We didn't have much luck believe it or not finding any so we have ordered some on the Internet!!!! We excitedly await the postman. In the meantime we will research how to care for ants. We went to the library yesterday to find books on ants but they didn't have any so we will research on the Internet. Thank godness for google!

This afternoon we went to for a play date with a family with a boy exactly the same age as Fred and a girl exactly bar a week or so the same age as Mia! The fun they had! Running around, playing with light sabres, the dog, trampoline, hide and seek, tag....they have really hit it off. Mia and the little girl had a few sharing issues but that comes with being 3! The boys are thick as thieves, wonderful to see these friendships growing! X