Author Archives: ofamily
The Story of Christmas – Advent Calender book set
I was never big on Advent Calendars mainly because I was not keen on the chocolate versions that you always see but about 3 years ago we found an Advent Calender that is a small book set. I quickly ordered … Continue reading
Posted in Homeschooling
Tagged Advent Calendar, Christmas, Christmas book set, family time, family traditions, home education
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Let’s go on a Measuring Walk
The last few weeks I have been feeling like we are not been doing as much hands-on Maths as we usually do. So after we discovered a new stunning wooded area just around the corner from our home the kids … Continue reading
Posted in maths ideas
Tagged hands on maths, home education, homeschooling, ks1 maths, maths activities, measurement
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Colby the Amazing Mouse
My kids have never done any coding activities before so when Learning Resources asked if we would be interested in their introduction to coding set – Code & Go Robot Mouse Activity Set I immediately said yes. I was not … Continue reading
Posted in Home education resources
Tagged Colby, home education, homeschooling, introducing coding, learning resources, Robot Mouse, STEM
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Colouring Quotes
With my daughter’s new interest in creative lettering I took a chance and printed out a few colouring quote pages from Activity Village and left them in our colouring in / template folder for her. When I first spotted the … Continue reading
Maths Loop Cards
One of the Maths activities that we have been doing a LOT of lately has been Loop Cards / Dominoes. The kids love them. If I ask them to choose a Maths activity they often choose one of the Loop … Continue reading
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Tagged fractions, home education, homeschooling, loop cards, maths, maths activity, number bonds, Twinkl
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