Author Archives: ofamily
The Man who bought a Mountain – Twinkl eBook
The kids and I going through a bit of a Twinkl eBook craze at the moment. My youngest loves them and I must admit I find them so easy (in other words little prep work on my side). Last week … Continue reading
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Tagged comprehension, eBooks, educational resources, home ed, home education, homeschooling, Twinkl
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RSC School Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
My daughter loves reading and actually enjoys Shakespeare. She has read a number of his works (in a slightly condensed version) and thought they were amazing. And I must admit I also enjoyed Shakespeare at school but when it came … Continue reading
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Tagged educational resources, English Literature, home ed, home education, homeschooling, KS3, KS3 English, Shakespeare
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Lockdown Learning
I know some people are loving lockdown learning but I must admit we have struggled. And yes I know some people find that hard to imagine because we are full time home educators (we home educated before lockdown started and … Continue reading
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Tagged activity village, educational resources, home ed, home education, homeschooling, Twinkl
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Cells
We started looking at cells earlier this year and the kids created a visual representation of an animal cell and a plant cell using kitchen items like a plastic container, frozen peas and frozen corn. It was a great activity. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cells, home ed, home education, homeschooling, KS3, Oaka Books, science
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The Parts of a Flower
During our many walks we have started trying to identify the different flowers that we spot and just talk about plant life more. Things like how to you think those flowers came here – could it have been wind dispersal? … Continue reading
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Tagged home ed, home education, homeschooling, nature science, parts of a flower, plant biology
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