Season 7, Episode 13

We're getting excited for Christmas, we visit some covid-secure festive experiences, and we finish with an acoustic rendition of Silent Night. Happy Christmas!

Season 7, Episode 12

This episode Eden's celebrating a birthday, we're sharing some Advent traditions and getting excited for Christmas, we give a run-down of a typical learning day, and we answer some of your questions!

Season 7 - Episode 11

In this episode we're watching an amazing fireworks display from our back garden, talking about parallels between 19th century cholera and the current Covid outbreak, along with origami, diamond art, the Crimean War and more!

Season 7, Episode 10

In this episode we're talking about our latest artist study (Hokusai), decorating our home grown pumpkins, bringing in the apple harvest from our orchard, and discussing drama, dance and bat craft.

Season 7 - Episode 9

In this episode we're sharing some sad pet news, going on a rainy walk, talking about hymns, the Victorians, Mayans and Maouris!

Season 7, Episode 8

In this episode we're investigating spiders webs, picking damsons and going on a staycation down south, visiting Legoland windsor, Chessington World of Adventures and various London destinations.

Season 7, Episode 7

Broadcasting from our new lawn, we're talking about horse riding, a trip to Alton Towers, narration, experiments with bananas and the industrial revolution.

Season 7, Episode 6

We're celebrating 'family saturday' - a fun tradition of ours, visiting Whitlenge gardens, the Sea Life Centre, Pizza Express and the Black Country Museum. We're also talking about making jam, haiku, amphibians in the garden and ocean layers.

Season 7 - Episode 5

In this episode we're talking about the various summer holiday clubs we've been taking part in, the activities we've done for nature and fantasy week, model making and playing badminton. Also Belle's not keen to have a hair wash after the recording!

Season 7, Episode 4

We've finally been able to get out on some trips, and we did a recording at an animal sanctuary. Plus we're sharing the activities we've been doing for our Summer Holiday passports, and the names of our two newest chickens!

Season 7, Episode 3

It's our 100th episode!!! We're celebrating by taking a trip down memory lane and sharing some of our favourite clips from the last 6 seasons, since we started in 2015. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Season 7, Episode 2

It's out 99th episode! We're talking about Henri Matisse, sharing what we're listening to on Yoto, our new walkie-talkies, lots of caterpillars, experiments with rhubarb and celery... and finally the various approaches we're taking to learning Spanish!

Season 7, Episode 1

We're excited to start a new season, having started our seventh year of home education this week! In this episode (recorded in a tent in the garden) we're talking about some of our new books and activities, as well as what we've continued. 

Books we mentioned included:
Quark Chronicles: Botany
Quark Chronicles: Zoology (and accompanying workbook)
Life of Fred: Apples, Butterflies, Cats, Edgewood
Cambridge Latin Course book 1
Great inventors
Biology for every kid
Africa is not a country
Super Silly Mad Libs Junior

Season 6, Episode 21

Although we've finished our formal learning until we start another academic year in a few months, there's still lots going on! In this episode we're talking about all our fruit and veg we're growing, the butterflies, tadpoles, ants and beetles we have, and the fun biology experiments we've been doing. We're also out and about picking elderflowers.

Season 6, Episode 20

In this episode we're talking about how we marked VE Day, our 'Celebration Friday' tradition, getting to know more neighbours during lockdown, and an update on all our animals large and small!

Season 6, Episode 19

It's our third episode in lockdown, but we've been keeping surprisingly busy. We've been hard at work outside, we're approaching the end of our academic year, and Eden has been finding new ways to build community with our neighbours.

We mentioned the botany and zoology Quark chronicles books too.

Season 6, Episode 18

We're a month into lockdown, but we've got some exciting chicken news! We share how some of our different groups are still producing content, and we're talking about the books we're finishing off as we approach the end of this year's learning.

Books we mention include:
The King's Shadow
The Beggar's Bible
West Midlands Folk Tales
Quark Chronicles: Botany
Shanleya's Quest
A Bag of Moonshine
The Story of Britain: Middle Ages
Wildcraft Plants

Season 6, Episode 17

Like the rest of the UK, we're in lockdown due to the coronavirus, but in this episode we're up one of our fruit trees and in our chicken run talking about what we've been up to during this strange time. We share what's stayed the same and what's been different, and we talk about our five new chickens, the vegetables and herbs we've started growing, and the fox and bats we've seen.

Season 6, Episode 16

In this episode we have a quick trip to the Legoland hotel to celebrate a special birthday, we're planting lots of seeds, trying not to talk *too* much about our chickens, and talking about what we've reading and doing over the last few weeks.

Season 6, Episode 15

We're very focused on chickens in this episode, recording alongside our two-week old chicks! We're also talking about Charlie Chaplin, great book deals, and what we're doing for the environment during Lent.

Books we mentioned included:
Who Was Charlie Chaplin?
How to speak chicken
A kids guide to keeping chickens
A field guide to fantastical beasts
St Clares series
Tiger Days series
Anne of Green Gables series
Famous Five series
Secret Seven series

Season 6, Episode 14

Hot on the heels of our last episode, this is the second of two special episodes sharing our recent adventures in Florida. This time we're focusing on all things Disney!

Season 6, Episode 13

We're back from an amazing trip to Florida, and this is the first of two special episodes sharing our adventures. In this one we're at Seaworld, Fort Christmas, the Hard Rock Hotel and in Diagon Alley at Universal studios!

Season 6, Episode 12

In this episode we're on location with the chicken breeder where we plan to get our chickens from, we do some chicken impressions and then share what we're excited about for our upcoming trip to Florida.

Season 6, Episode 11

As we embark on a new decade, on a wet and windy January day we talk about the new channels we've launched and connections we've made with listeners, as well as our usual activities, read-alouds and learning since the start of the year.

Resources we mentioned include:
Eagle's Honour by Rosmary Sutcliffe
Our Universe - Russell Stannard
Quark Chronicles - Botany, by Ernest De Vore
13 Storey Treehouse series