Home ed supplies for under 6s...

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I have de registered my eldest son from school,he is 5 and a half and in yr 1,i also have a 4 yr old in reception so i am going to leave him in for now as he seems to enjoy it,although i expect he will want to come out after a few weeks (its okay if he doesn't though)

I also have a 3 yr old in pre school and a 1 yr old at home.

oh,and im also 7 months pregnant!

My husband has taken them away to see family this weekend to see his family so i am trying to spend this weekend sorting the house,organizing some stuff to do and stocking up on art supplies.

Does anyone have any ideas for fun/educational things we could do?mainly for the eldest,i have paid for 6 months with reading eggs and we have all the books to go with it,he has almost finished them though as he likes doing things like that,i dont make him i just leave them lying about(strewing as sandra dodd would say!) and he just does them.

When they get back i have planned so far

Monday-trip to zoo,its halloween scream week
Tuesday-we are going to see andys tick tock time machine something or other at the theatre
Wednesday-we have a sort of halloween tree(a big branch from the garden in a vase!)which we will paint black and make decorations for,maybe a trip to the local park and library.
Thursday-ds1 best friend coming to play in the morning,make some halloween cookies and make pumpkin risotto and pumpkin pie for dinner.dress up and face paints.
Friday-no idea!
Saturday and Sunday dh will be home,maybe find a bonfire to go to?

Any suggestions?

Are you on Pinterest?

im sure im registred but ive never really used it,imight go and try to login now...

Lots of fantastic ideas!

My son loved Maths Whizz when he was little. Wasn't the cheapest, but he actually used it a lot so was worth it.

If he likes doing projects and you want some free funky tech options, try glogster, powtoon and prezi.

Another place to keep an eye out for free new stuff that can be useful for home edders is the Free Technology For Teachers blog.

I also loved TES resources for things that would never have occurred to me. You'll need to make an account, but it's free.

thanks CarpeVinum,thats great,he really loves technology and the computer so ill be looking at all of those.

This feels like a great time of year to start home edding,theres so much that can be used for inspiration,halloween,bonfire night,christmas,all great things to be getting into.

He sound like my son

Another one worth looking at it he fanices MFL, duolingo, on 'puter or mobile device, free app. I use it for son for Spanish and most of my students use it for ESL. It's better than a lot of paid apps. There is another app that we used which I think is really good for kids, it's free but the full name is eluding me, I'll go dig around on iTues and see if I can find it.

Before I forget, for early creative writing with my initially very reluctant writer I used this and the less complicated ones here

Find your nearest scrap store you will get lodes of craft stuff from there.
Start saving all your oxo boxes ect.
Look up the crafty crow. Take a walk to collect leaves, acorns and concers if there's any left.
Not everything that is educational looks educational, most of it looks like making a mess.
Have fun.

Yes, I have an idea that your son will probably continue to enjoy the things he and the younger ones are already doing, only he will have more time and so he may want more stuff to work on. But you don't really have to change the type of things he does, if you see what I mean.

Yes i get what you mean,he tends to like computer/games based stuff but also outdoors stuff and arts and crafts too,i find even though he i dont impose any limits on the amount he plays on the computer he never spends ALL DAY on there,sometimes more than i would choose for him,but he always comes off on his own eventually and gets into something else,espescially if his brother and sister are doing something interesting (theyre not fussed about computers really).