2013 in review

I can't quite believe that this is almost the end of 2013. The year has flown by. These are some highlights of the year, from the blog: some are popular posts and some events that we really enjoyed.

January

The post on UK home education resources was popular and I've now given it a separate page.

February

Fun Science is one of the all time most read posts on the blog. I love afternoons exploring science in a fun way.

March
We visited Rochester on a very windy March day. The Castle is definitely worth visiting and the city has close associations with Charles Dickens as well as fascinating buildings from different periods in history.

April
14 ways to save money on home education resources is the most read post on the blog.

May
Our kittens arrived. They are so much bigger now.

June
In science, we learnt about the blood.

July
In early July,the family went on holiday to a beautiful thatched cottage in the Devon countryside.

August
In August, I took part in the Schoolhouse Crew Five day blog hop. I wrote Five Days of booklists. 

The two lists, 70+ Picture books and Reference books for use in home education have been some of the most read books of the year.

September
My youngest son joined in with the learning more "formally". We did work on letters in the garden.

October
By October, we had reached the nervous system in our learning about the body.

November
This year, I've been privileged to review some really helpful books and resources but Seasons of the heart was probably the highlight. I'm hoping to read it each day in the New Year. 

December
Through this month, we seem to have been making bath bombs on a semi-industrial scale.

Happy New Year to you! I hope, although this isn't a promise, to be able to put some verses on the blog, later today, which have been an encouragement to me, this year.

The Schoolhouse review Crew has a post linking to Crew Members' posts looking back on 2013. Do pop over to see how others have spent the past year.