You get to use food for maths.

Wednesday was a good day.  The two littlies were at preschool so I was going to take the two bigger ones to the woods, to meet some other home ed families.  Unfortunately Howabout was poorly so he stayed at home with Daddy.  So Why? and I went by ourselves.
On the way I asked Why? his thoughts about home education he said it was good because: you don't have to do the same thing at the same time every day and you get to use food for maths.  This made me smile.  I think it will be helpful for me to ask this question more often, the kids just have a nack of nailing it on the head with a simple and honest answer.

Our time at the woods was fun, relaxing and muddy (in JUNE!).  The kids, of various ages, played in and out of the trees whilst the mums had weighty conversations about our hopes for our kids and our disappointment with schools so far.

I would like to say at this point that I am not anti-schools or teachers.  We have just had a bad experience recently and I believe it boils down to one thing = 30 children and 1 teacher.  My child was not encouraged to thrive at school because the teacher did not have the time to give him extra work to keep him motivated, tragic but true.  In essence we took our son out of school because he wanted to learn too much!  We were told that he has too many questions, so on his folder I have put a poster with a quote from Albert Einstein,

"The important thing is to NOT STOP questioning."