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Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar workbook for Key Stage 3 ages
Over the summer holidays when I was gathering together our Year 7 resources I did not select anything for Grammar, Punctuation or Spelling. I just did not get around to it and we were still finishing up with a Key … Continue reading
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Tagged English Language, english resources, home ed, home education, homeschooling, Key Stage 3, Year 7
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Life Cycle Books
On a recent trip to the library my son spotted one of these life cycle books and immediately borrowed it and brought it home. He really enjoyed reading and asked if I could see if there were any other books … Continue reading
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Tagged children's book, educational books, food chains, home ed, home education, homeschooling, life cycles
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Sutton Hoo
Last year we looked at the Anglo-Saxons in quite a lot of detail and we read about Sutton Hoo but our focus was on the life of the Anglo-Saxons, the migrations and the different kingdoms and rulers. We visited the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglo-Saxons, British History, British Museum, History, home ed, home education, National Trust, Sutton Hoo
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English Literature Update – Black Beauty
Over the summer I wrote a number of “starting Year 7” posts where I mentioned the different resources that we were planning on using. So I thought I would give an update on one item that is proving to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Beauty, Children's Classics, English Ideas, English Literature, home education, homeschooling
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Bee Boy Book 2 and Book 3.
About 2 weeks ago I came downstairs to find my son lost in the second Bee Boy Book (The Attack of the Zombees). We have had this copy for a little while but he has been reading a few series … Continue reading
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Tagged Bee Boy, children's book, fun early chapter books, home ed, home education, homeschooling, kids reading
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K’Nex just never gets old
We have recently been going through one of our K’Nex phases where the kids just seem to build creation after creation. And I realized it was just over 2 years ago that we started with our first K’Nex box – … Continue reading
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Tagged building sets, educational resources, home ed, home education, homeschooling, K'NEX, STEM
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Free Times Table Dominoes
I have mentioned a number of times that both my kids like to practice maths with dominoes – well a maths version of dominoes. Nothing fancy just match two sides of the dominoe cards together. I was recently searching for … Continue reading
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Tagged educational resources, free printables, home ed, home education, homeschooling, Maths Dominoes, Times table
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