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About ofamily

Home educating family based in the UK. We try to make learning fun

Light Topic pack from Oaka Books

Posted on July 3, 2020

I mentioned in my previous post that we have just covered Light in Science. And one of the resources that we used was our Oaka Books Topic Pack on Light. While we were using it an interesting shift happened for … Continue reading →

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Light

Posted on July 2, 2020

As part of Science we have been looking at Light and we used 3 different resources.  The light section from our Activate book, a Light reading book that we have (Light: Band 17/Diamond (Collins Big Cat)) and our Oaka Books … Continue reading →

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Joan of Arc

Posted on June 26, 2020

We have been looking at the Hundred Year War (well actually 116 years) between France and England in our History. It is a fascinating period. We have looked at quite a few of the English characters in detail so I … Continue reading →

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Fiction Workbook for KS2

Posted on June 24, 2020

My kids enjoy writing stories. They often take a book they have read and then recreate their own version of it or they just create random stories. And I must be honest I have enjoyed watching them do their own … Continue reading →

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Multiplying and Dividing by 10 and 100 with Dinosaurs

Posted on June 22, 2020

Over the lockdown my son has gone back to his dinosaur fascination (well I say gone back but it has always been there in the background as one of those topics that he finds interesting). This time it is a … Continue reading →

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