Not back to school

Still playing catchup a little here. September marks our second "official" year of home educating but whereas last year I was in a bit of a panic as to wether we were doing the right thing, Im now much more confident about our decision. Emily would be moving into year one if she went to school, which I have been told by friends who have children in this year, is when the work starts, more emphasis on learning, less on playing, but as we will remain child led I sharnt be planning out any lessons anytime soon! What we have done is discussed together how we would like things to progress, if there is anything Emy would like to learn about, look at in more detail and she said she would like to learn to read better and learn more about nature :-) Emy is doing really well with her reading, she often likes to have downtime laying down with a book, she usually chooses books that are too advanced for her when she does this, long chapter books with no pictures which I have picked up to save for when she's older, but she likes to study the words and pretends to read them. We have the Oxford reading tree library which I bought during last years panic and she can read the first level with very little help. For Nature, we took another look at Nature detectives website which we enjoyed a couple of years ago and decided together to take out another subscription and our pack arrived last week. So thats us, nothing is really changing and were all pretty happy about that :-)