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About ofamily

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

Butterfly doubling and halving

For some reason my daughter is happy doubling her numbers but freezes up if I ask her what half of a number is.  She seems to have missed the link between the two so I wanted to do and activity … Continue reading

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Making our own mosaic letters

We have been doing a number of letter activities for our little man lately, he has been loving them and keeps asking me for more.  This time I thought we would combine our letters with some crafts and make our … Continue reading

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The Snow Queen – writing a flap book and melting ice

One of the kids new favourite story books is The Snow Queen.  I was actually surprised by how popular the book has been as my kids are not normally fans of traditional fairy tales.  So in keeping with their new … Continue reading

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What our neighbours think of homeschooling

We have been homeschooling for almost three years now and I have had very different reactions from my neighbours over the almost three years.  I had a lovely neighbour who was fascinated by it and came for some tea and … Continue reading

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The very hungry caterpillar

The last few weeks have been very disruptive on the home learning front.  All of us have taken it in turns to get sick and now we are in a mad rush to quickly pack up the house so we … Continue reading

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