Author Archives: Sharon

By all accounts it’s been a pretty unusual year. One of my family’s biggest challenges has been our son’s preschool – or lack thereof. Between moving house twice, a pandemic and just a lack of options here in the mountains he’s only had a few months of preschool all up. Despite this, and after aContinue reading “Big School Scavenger Hunt”

Today is Sorry Day and I would like to extend my apologies to all Aboriginal people past, present and future from where I live on Darug and Gundungurra land. One thing I’ve enjoyed about homeschooling over the last few months is the freedom to embed different cultural perspectives into our curriculum, particularly Indigenous voices. EachContinue reading “Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives in Homeschooling”

Since the announcement that in NSW kids are being forced back into the classroom full-time I’ve been feeling a bit emotional. I won’t get into the politics of it all. Mostly I just feel a bit sad we’re coming to the end of our homeschooling journey, and thus, the #50daysofbluey project. We’re opting to keepContinue reading “Coming to the end of 50 Days of Bluey”

The second season of Bluey has been filled with so many gorgeous, funny, and heart-warming episodes like Sleepytime, Hammerbarn, The Show, Rug Island, Escape… I could go on and on. For this reason, and partly because iView simply hasn’t been airing as many “older” Bluey episodes, they’ve been less present in this project. So thisContinue reading “Week 8 – Plus MORE Activity Guides!”

First of all, a very Happy Mother’s Day to anyone reading this today. I’ll keep this shirt and sweet and dive straight into this week’s episodes: Bingo Tickle Crabs Hospital Charades I spent a lot of time this week working on some free resources you can download. As part of the “Bingo” episodes I’ve createdContinue reading “Week 7 – Plus Download New Activity Guides”

In the lead-up to Mother’s Day I decided to feature episodes this week that celebrate mums – whether it’s pretend-playing as a mum or highlighting everyone favourite cartoon dog mum Chilli. I’ve also started cutting down the number of episodes from 5 to 4. I’m finding that by Fridays my kids are pretty tapped outContinue reading “Week 6 of 50 Days of Bluey”

Well, here we are again. A few people have wondered why I’m spending time of this when the world is in such a state of anxiety. But I’m the type of person that needs a project to throw myself into to keep from spiralling. It’s a good distraction from the 24/7 newsfeed and I thinkContinue reading “Week 5 of 50 Days of Bluey”

I hope everyone enjoyed a little bit of a break over Easter. For many of us, of course, it was just same same. But I found myself missing the routine of homeschooling. There’s so many memes going around about setting up distance learning schedules or ignoring it all to just play and I just wantContinue reading “Week 4 of 50 Days of Bluey”

Just wanted to write a quick post wishing everyone a happy Easter long weekend. I’m not posting new Bluey activities this week, but will post again on Sunday 19 April. In the mean time I thought I’d post some Easter activities I’ve done with my kids in years past. What are you making this year?Continue reading “Happy Easter!”

How’s everyone going in quarantine land? Pulling your hair out? Enjoying the family time? A little of both? I hear ya. Having this project to work on has definitely helped keep me sane and I’ve also enjoyed meeting a new community of parents who are also doing the #50daysofbluey challenge. JOIN US ON FACEBOOK! IContinue reading “Week 3 of 50 Days of Bluey”