Just a short blog post to say that we went to our first ever home schoolers meeting in Rugby Library today (our nearest town) and met up with other people like ourselves who, for one reason or another, have decided to sidestep the usual school-based education system in this country and go it alone. It's a weekly meeting of about five or six families, usually, with parents taking it in turns to present the groups with activities based around a theme of some kind. This week's theme was New Zealand, with local games, arts and crafts, and various picture displays to see or get involved with.
The boys thoroughly enjoyed themselves at the meeting, joining in with various colouring and pattern-making activities, and even little Indi, only three, seemed to be making friends with the other younger kids. There was a bad moment when we thought she'd actually wandered out of the library, but luckily our new friends discovered her playing in a small storage room (!) nearby. It can be a hard task, looking after three such young children, especially when they are all excited by a new experience, but the Rugby group of home schoolers seemed pretty relaxed about the way our three kept running about and climbing under the tables!
There's a group swimming session at the local pool on Friday; I've invested in some new swimming shorts for the two boys and they'll be trying that out too. They've never swum before, so I'm a little apprehensive about how they'll cope with the noise and physical experience, especially M., who has a problem with noise, but I'll let you know how they can get on.
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