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About ofamily

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

What’s that Building – a Big Cat reader

I love discovering interesting new reading books.  But I must admit upfront that we have often found the different reading series a bit boring, as a result we normally pick library books based on what looks interesting and we often … Continue reading

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Make your own Learn to Draw Book

It is no secret I love “How to Draw” pages and my kids have been using them for some time now.  But I have never really stored them somewhere so often the individual pages would get packed away in-between other … Continue reading

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Fractions, Decimals and Percentage learning aid

After spending a lot of time on breaking Time down into fractions it was no big surprise that my daughter wanted to do more fractions this week (Fractions is one of her favourite Maths topics).    We had been talking a … Continue reading

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About Time – An activity set to help understand Time

My oldest is not a fan of telling time or working out how much time has elapsed but she loves fractions so when I spotted the About Time Set from Learning Resources which includes a number of time fractions I … Continue reading

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Woodland Trust Free nature printouts

We love going for our nature walks and the kids naturally end up asking lots of questions about the plants and creatures that we spot while we are out.  They always want to know the names of the trees (I … Continue reading

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