today school starts again... but in a new form!!

last wednesday i was starting school again... i was going into year 8! i was so exited. i knew lily and noah where going to be staying at home to be home educated, but it didnt really bother me knowing that i would be getting up at half 6 for school and they would be tucked up in bed or that it would just be me and dad having breakfast together.what did bother me was that they would be going out on trips, going for coffee. all the small little things.
 The following monday i decided to take the day off to see what it would be like to be home ed. the moment i woke up i knew that it was the right thing to do, to leave school and be taught by mum! i only told one friend because i wasnt really sure what to say to everyone else. what would they think? that it was unfair or that i was a lazy girl for not bothering to turn up at school. i thought it might be easier if my friend told them, but it came with complications.. questions after questions. how will you learn? will you take your g.c.s.e's?? will you go to prom?? all these question, i was starting to wonder if i had made the wrong decsicion. mum always said follow your heart and that what i did. when i came to look at the bigger picture i relised that i waould still be able to see my friends, its not as if i was moving, i could still go the partys (if my friends remembered to invite me) and if they were my true friends they would support me and still try to include me in what they where doing.
only one thing has changed. no more school!!

Day one in the Horler Home-Ed House......

Ummm..... achieved today:

1) Lily baked cookies (Math and Science)
2) Postnatal visit (Biology)
3) Trip to shops to purchase some books (Budgeting)
4) Visit to the library (Literacy and research)
5) Built Lego cars (Geometry)
6) Laid the dinner table (Home economics)
7) Read books (Self-guided reading)
8) Played Wii Sport (Physical Education)

Pretty good day all in all with most of the core subjects covered! :-)

Angela