Post contains affiliate links Our STEM exploration has gone undocumented over the last couple of months on the blog, although we’re still regularly updating the AcornSTEM Facebook page, because two months ago we moved to a new home in need of complete renovation. For the first few weeks we were without a cooker because we ..read more

After the flurry of house moving, and a fortnight of solid hard graft cleaning, plastering, tiling, removing old carpets and emptying boxes, the sunshine this week has prompted us to take the jobs list outside.   This week, In between resuming regular ‘schoolwork’ we have battled brambles, cleared broken glass and removed a couple of ..read more

I’ve been neglecting the blog recently.  We’ve been having great fun with lots of STEM activities and days out, for example we visited the Eden Project last month on a home education group trip.  We’ve revisited slime-making and constructed bridges from rolled up paper. We’ve explored medieval books and drawn our own illuminated letters.  There’s ..read more

We were sent more books to review last week and our favourite of the bunch is this one, Dog Diaries, by Steven Butler and James Patterson.   The boys are already big fans of Steven Butler through his Dennis the Menace diaries series and other great books, but when I saw James Patterson as co-author ..read more

  On Friday we arrived home from a busy morning catching up with our old Makaton group at a play gym session to find a Weekend Box had been delivered for Toby.  Cue great excitement as he raced to open it (I had to intercept it briefly to get a quick photo of it first ..read more