Resources available to us – (updated at bottom of page)
Below is a list of some of the resources and places that we have visited together with a list at the bottom of ideas we are intending to further for future use.
Current Resources (Feb 2005)
- Local Library
- Our own 1000+ book collection
- Corinium Museum Education Loans Boxes on Anglo-Saxons
- Corinium Museum Education Loans Boxes on Romans
- large range of Ladybird books including Peter and Jane classics, and some with Audio CDs such as The Secret Garden
- Tractor Ted educational videos and DVDs, covering rural science
- 3000 Lego basic bricks starter pack
- Home Computer with various educational software packages
- Children’s Optical Microscope for above
- Bug Viewer with optical lenses
- Classic Composers CD collection complete with history of composers
- Wildlife Fact-File information cards
- 40+ Readers Digest reference books
- ‘Bible Stories to Read’ and associated ‘Bible Pictures to Color’ workbooks
- Jolly Phonics Dictionary and various resources by Jolly Phonics
- Flash Cards including – Phonics, Keywords, Adding and Subtracting, Times Tables
- large range of WHSmiths and other workbooks suitable to their ages and abilities
- colouring books, craft materials, pens, pencils, pastels, paints, Playdough, glue, scissors and many other materials
- Fuzzy-Felts
- Painting Easel
- Many games including – My First Scrabble, Junior Scrabble, Number Rummikub and Word Rummikub, Connect4, Silly Sentences, Downfall, Globe Trotting, various types of Dominoes, various matching pairs games
- 53cm Globe
- Numerous wall charts on walls including, World Map, European Map, The Human Body, Human Skeleton, Months of the Year, What is the Time?
- Magnet Letters
- Sky TV home package covering National Geographic and Animal Planet and various Cookery Programmes
- two Adventist satellite channels covering Citizenship and other valuable life skills
Places We Have Visited
- Corinium Museum (3 visits)
- Cotswold Wildlife Park
- Butterfly World at Strafford-Upon-Avon
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church (normally weekly)
- Infant baptism service at a Greek Authordox Church
- Steam Museum in Swindon
- Chedworth Roman Villa
- Vintage Model Cars and Trains Fair in Staines
- Various Play Grounds and Parks
- Home Education group social and activity meetings
- kept in contact with some of their old school friends
- country walking including Crickley Hill Iron Age Fort
- Bourton Model Railway Exhibition
- FunDays at Bourton (activity play centre)
Future Ideas
- Swimming at Bourton Leisure Centre
- Music Lessons
- French or Spanish Lessons
- go to At Bristol Science Park
- go to Cotswold Farm Park
- go to Birdland at Bourton
- use our National Trust membership to the full
- purchase climbing frame or slide or other outdoor equipment
Update 2006
- French lessons occur weekly at the Cotswold International Language School in Cirencester
- various French books / childrens dictionaries / TinyTots TV video / Computer software added to increase exposure to the French language
- quality outdoor slide purchased for Spring/Summer/Autumn use
- large amount of Duplo Lego collected to give real opportunites for 3D-spacial skill development and Maths skills
- large volumn of traditional lego bricks bought for older children to make models
- visits with other Home Educating families to provide social contact
- 800+ ladybird reading books bought on Ebay to increase age appropiate reading material
- various maths equipment bought including Fraction Tower Cubes / Cuisenaire Rods / calculators
- large amount of science kits purchased mostly Cambridge Science kits such as weather station etc…
- Cambridge Brain Box electronics kit suitable for primary age group with clip together components