Ministry of Education recommend you avail yourself of the NZ National Curriculum. But nah.

For under 12s, talk hug read laugh dance listen run play bake games parks libraries socialise (haha) – just live and enjoy family life.

Join in with others – anyone can advertise on their local homeschool group to create a Park Day. Advertise a few days in advance – and if you’re the only ones there – you enjoy yourself anyway.

What do YOU (the adultparent) want your children to be like by the time they are 18 years old? (They can’t not learn – provide a fun safe curious environment)

Trust your children.

Make a Plan

• Be Patient and Trustful
• Keep your spirit uplifted and your body healthy and vigorous
• Keep yourself busy
• Serve someone else – don’t live in survival mode or selfish mode
• Invite someone over for a homemade meal who lives alone.
• Take a meal to a friend.
• Write a note of encouragement to someone.
• Get outside of yourself.

Hang Out With Yourself

• Make some fun for yourself. Treat Yourself … List your ways here ….
• Lose yourself in a good cup of tea – it can change the world
• Play guitar or keyboard – learn some new tunes
• Go to bed way before midnight.
• Keep exercising regularly and start taking dancing or gym classes.
• Start a new course or hobby. Establish little goals and work on enhancing your abilities in a certain field or focus on learning a new skill or language.
• Catch up on your TV Shows – or art and craft that you haven’t done for a while
• Acknowledge your feelings. Don’t go in to hiding.
• Plot his journey on a map. Pray blessings on his days.
• Keep note of your feelings plus the big topics of conversation to talk about on his return (not the first day). Some things are not best to talk/write about on cellphone.

Have A True Girls’ Night

• Do things that build relationships with those you know or those that you don’t yet know.
• Catch up with some old friends you haven’t seen in a while – do girly things eg. haircut, mani/pedi.
• Make good on that promise of coffee with a friend you haven’t seen in awhile.
• Surround yourself with friends and go out with them. Plan dinners, movies and other interesting social events, and invite people over more often.
• Be diligent in carving out time to be in God’s Word. Focus your heart, worries and affections on God
• On his return … be patient and trusting; allow time for re-adjustment and for the traveller to rest and re-group.
• From a variety of websites, 4 May 2017

Check out these options / ideas …

No timetable is needed.
But you do need to indicate (acc to law, s.21) “as regularly and as well”.

We made a comment, in our exemption application, about regular meals around the dining table; more sit down, schooly stuff in the morning; and tend to do more creative or outside activities in afternoon – yet being flexible enough to respond to Grandma’s visit or other events or occasions that arose.

:: Keep vague, flexible, and yet include stuff that keeps MOE happy.

Melt

5oz [150g] butter

50z sugar [white / brown]

1 T golden syrup

Mix

2 c flour

1 c sultanas [etc]

1 beaten egg

essence to flavour – vanilla or butterscotch

Mix together.

1 t baking powder [mix in warm milk]

Quickly blend in. Put in swiss roll tin.

Bake at 165°C [325°F] until golden brown [about 15 mins on fanbake].

Can ice with lemon icing while hot [I don’t].

Leave to cool in tin then cut into squares.