Roadschooling

The Best Writer Ever!!!

  I’ve never really enjoyed reading much in the past. I never understood why Hannah liked it so much. Now I’m starting to understand. The past year or so Hannah has been trying to get me in to reading. When she finally managed to convince me to read the first Harry Potter book (a few […]

A Young Adventure-Zoologist’s Fantastic Weekend

Sometimes you look and see a great time unfolding for your roadschooled/worldschooled child and can’t help smile right down to your soul. Last weekend was such a weekend for TJ. It started by finding some Conservation Zoologists modifying nesting boxes for the small blue penguins while wild camping around the edges of Wellington. TJ took off […]

Books and Imagination

When I was younger, when we lived in Orkney, I thought reading was something that could be fun but I never had the time for it because of the boring books my school assigned for me, ones where I’d argue with the teacher about how ‘Jan’ was pronounced because it was a Swiss boy and […]

Tamara Remembers: OUR TRIP TO INDONESIA

I woke early in the day we were going to Indonesia. I made sure my backpack was packed and waited for the others to wake up as well.  It was hot in India. It was only me and Mum, Gwennie and Priscilla. My dad and other 2 sisters were in Egypt. We were going to […]

Care of wild animals

I like finding animals that need help and taking care of them until they are better. Some of the many animals that I have looked after are: Gary Bob, the lizard (USA), Inigo Montoya, the dog (Spain), Captain Jack, the Sparrow (New Zealand), Mr Toad, the toad (England) and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the tortoise (Turkey.) […]

BIG BAD WOLF?

This is a report I just wrote and wanted to put it up here. BIG BAD WOLF? by Tamara Jones (11 years old) Wolves are a mysterious, gentle and deeply misunderstood kind of mammal. When you hear about wolves you might think that they are mean and scary, but actually they are friendly and kind. […]

Roadschooling. We know it works but can we prove it?

“Abigail went to Transylvania, Romania to research the prevalence of bats and the myth of Vlad the Impaler and Count Dracula.” Roadschooling is the only way we can travel and educate our kids at the same time. A lot of people ask about entrance into university when the kids get older and we finally had […]

Wild Winds

It all started when we were watching Doctor Who series 1 disc 3 and episode 3 and 4 (a double episode) the empty child and the doctor dances. We first noticed the storm when the truck started to rock and mum looked outside and the tent was slowly going down. She called dad to come […]

Roadschooling with Multiple Currencies

A regular part of our travels is sorting through left over coins. Try as we might to spend all the currency before we leave a country either by putting it into the tank, exchanging it at the border or (the kid’s favourite) spending it on special foods.   We always seem to find extra coins […]