Author Archives: ofamily
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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Prefixes
When I was reading one of my daughter’s stories I noticed that she had a tendency to drop double letters when she combined prefixes with root words so I thought it would be good to revisit the idea of prefixes … Continue reading
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Tagged english spelling, free printables, home ed, home education, homeschooling, prefixes
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The Tap Dancing Pigeon of Covent Garden Book Review
This book is a bit young for my kids but I liked the message included in the book and since one of my neighbours is the author I offered to write a review on the book. When I first heard … Continue reading
The Wonderlab at the Science Museum
We bought a year’s membership to the Wonderlab at London’s Science Museum which means we have been a few times so I thought I should write something about the experience. (Just to clarify this is not an ad I purchased … Continue reading
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Tagged educational resources, home ed, home educating mom, home education, homeschooling, museums, science, wonderlab
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What’s Where on Earth Dinosaurs and other Prehistoric Life – a book review
We recently went on a day trip to the Isle of Wight and while we were there we visited a Dinosaur museum. The kids were actually invited into a back area to see how they were busy rebuilding a dinosaur … Continue reading
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Tagged children's book, Dinosaurs, educational books, home ed, home education, homeschooling, learning resources
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Weekends are just as good as Week Days
There seems to be a thought that home education happens during the week (okay this is normally what I hear from non-home educating parents) but it doesn’t. Yes the kids and I do activities during the week, yes we work … Continue reading
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Tagged home ed, home educating mom, home education, homeschooling
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Year 4 Resource Ideas
I have written a few detailed posts about what I am planning on using with my daughter as she starts year 7 but I have not really mentioned anything about my son who is starting year 4, I think that … Continue reading
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Tagged eduactional resources, home ed, home education, homeschooling, Key Stage 2, maths, Year 4
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