Glimpse is a free monthly Secular Global Learning newsletter we have created that you can download. Glimpse  stands for – Global Learners In Many Places Sharing Experiences

You can find the first edition here… Click to download!

I have also sent up a way for interested people all over the world to subscribe to Glimpse. This system will email you to reminded you when each monthly issue is available for download.

Hope you subscribe soon – Just click here to do so!

The overwhelming response to the first issue is one of positive abundance, which is fabulous considering all the hard work everyone put into creating it.

Now though the focus is on spreading the word about this new resource for others to learn about it and hopefully join in.

The focus is also on the two new topics for the second edition, where a special focus will be put on delving into the following topics:

- Bringing History to Life
- Science in Everyday Living

Here’s hoping that Glimpse just grows and grows – Keep spreading the world – PLEASE!

Well today we watched Jah play her final game for OHA Under 11′s Netball team at Creek Road. She did  a great job playing this season and has enjoyed it immensely for the most part. The last few weeks we have all taken it in turns to feel sick, so Jah has not always managed to get to every training session, but I think she only missed one or two games for the whole season, so a fabulous effort from her.

Jah still has another three weeks of Schools Netball where she plays for Brighton under 11′s A division Netball team. So now we look forward to enjoying the rest of that season.

The question for Jah now is ‘Do I play Club netball in the Spring roster or not?’ guess time will tell!

Hi everyone,

We just wanted to share with you the link to the first edition of  GLIMPSE – Global Learners In Many Places Sharing Experiences  newsletter, which is more like a magazine!

Glimpse is a monthly secular publication for homeschoolers, home educators and people with a love of  learning from a home base.  It is free and I think well worth a read. Hope you enjoy it!

Click here to download your free copy of GLIMPSE!

Well we have been busy house hunting. The dream of owning our own home again seems to be such a big task and so stressful. First we not only have to find the kind of home that we think will fit the ever changing needs of our family, but then we have to ensure that we can secure the much needed funds to purchase it. We seem to have been saving and saving since forever, yet still we can’t find the house we feel really fits the bill for us…

Fingers crossed that we will be able to find it soon, especially since we don’t particularly want something Big and flash!

Well here we are! Already it is the last day of the week – or depending on how you view life, the first day of the week! Regardless of where you think Sunday may fall within the seven day structure,  Sunday is always Bun day here at our house.

In this house, our love of freshly baked buns has turned into something of a tradition – come Sundays. For quite some time now, every Sunday it has been our destiny to get up and go and buy buns from our local bakery. Then once home we top then with spreads of butter, jam and Vegemite or in the instance of one of us, nothing at all!

I am not really sure when the act of buying buns (Knot rolls to be precise)  as a Sunday treat suddenly turned into a must have addition along with our Sunday newspaper. But it has, and for quite some time we have enjoyed this relaxed atmosphere and start to the day.

Also around here, Sunday  traditionally means – roast day at our house too. We always have roast meat, roast potato, pumpkin, carrots and such like and the ever trustworthy mash potato on hand.

Argh, now wonder Sundays seem to be our favourite day with such predictability and tradition surround it!

Well I have been very busy… and as a result I have a new project underway. Over the last little while I have been busy working to establish a small group of individuals in order to create an online publication / newsletter dedicated to sharing learning around the globe.

I have been very fortunate in being able to get this off the ground and currently there is a wonderful group of us individuals working on the first edition. We live in the USA, New Zealand, Canada and Australia.

We have decided to call this publication ‘GLIMPSE – which stands for ‘Global Learners In Many Places Sharing Experiences’

This newsletter (which is fast turning into something more like a magazine type product) will have a theme each month that participants can join in by sending in articles related to the theme of the month. Each new issue will outline the theme for the following month. Articles will be written by individuals from a personal perspective and the hope is to showcase our children’s learning with other like minded home educators. However to be involved, people only have to have a love of learning, they do not have to specifically home educate, just be open and friendly to the idea.

There will be no advertising, no political content and no religious content either.

The first editions theme is ‘Introducing your family…’ and the deadline for articles for consideration is Monday the 26th of July 2010. The first edition will be available in PDF format and either sent in email or made available for download from this website. Anyone who is interested in learning more or joining in, please email info@golab.info for further details.

It is important to know that if you chose to join in, you acknowledge that the newsletter / publication will be created as a PDF file and will be emailed or downloaded from a website (if size too big) to other families around the world who say they are homeschooling. You must understand that anyone can potentially have access to any of the information you provide for inclusion into the newsletter. Therefore it is very important NOT to add any personal or real identifying details to your articles, etc. unless you want others anywhere in the world to know that information about you. Even keeping this in mind, we are sure we can all create a wonderful resource for us to learn and share from each other with!

We hope some of you may find this opportunity worth while. If you feel this may be of interest to others please direct them to this website rather than posting the info else where ! Thanks!

Sunday, Sunday!

Well here we are another week is coming to a close. I can’t believe that already I have finished my job at SMC over a week ago. Where does the time go?

This week we have been busy working on some formal book work. Nik has been doing Australia Related work. She was able to colour in the state in which she lives on a map in red and also the state in which she was born in pink. The other states could be any other colour. It is incredible to know that even at her age she can easily identify where she lives and where she was born as well as on a world map where she was born and where her Tata was born too, even though she can not read the place names, she knows by sight. She keeps telling us that one day she wishes to travel to Poland to see where Tata was born.

Jah has been busy learning about Amelia Earhart. We have watched the movie ‘Amelia’ about her life and have also been doing some lapbooking and research about her also. Jah enjoys this style of learning. Jah has also been busy with her artwork and drawing lately. She has taken to drawing on black paper and trying to capture moments in the Doctor Who series. She is doing a great job too.

Jah enjoys writing poetry when she wants too. Here she is writing a Poem about Doctor Who.