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About ofamily

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

Creative Lettering For Kids

Posted on November 3, 2017 by ofamily

The kids loved writing their calligrams so I thought it would be fun to extend that into some more creative lettering.  I was looking for lettering ideas / examples that I could do with my daughter when I spotted this … Continue reading →

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Guy Fawkes Activity Village Pages

Posted on November 2, 2017 by ofamily

We have never really done many Guy Fawkes activities in the past so this year I decided it was time for both the kids and myself to learn about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder plot. A couple of our history … Continue reading →

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Reading Classic Stories Together

Posted on October 30, 2017 by ofamily

My oldest is a confident happy reader, she enjoys reading to herself but she also LOVES it when we read a book together.  It is honestly one of her all time favourite activities.  Curling up on the couch while we … Continue reading →

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Improper Fractions

Posted on October 27, 2017 by ofamily

One of the new Math ideas we introduced this year was Improper Fractions  (when your numerator is bigger than the denominator) and how you convert that Improper Fraction into a  Mixed Fraction (combinations of whole numbers and fractions).  And as … Continue reading →

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Adding and Subtracting Fractions

Posted on October 24, 2017 by ofamily

We are back onto fractions again, working on decimals but I realized I never wrote a post about how we looked at adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator or how we looked at Improper Fractions (post later this … Continue reading →

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