Author Archives: ofamily
Key Stage 3 Collins History Books
I wrote last year about the two Collins Key Stage 3 History books that my daughter bought after spotting them in a local bookstore. We started using the first one as her main History book but I kept feeling like I … Continue reading
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Tagged British History, educational books, History, home ed, home education, homeschooling, KS3, secondary resources
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2020 Calendar
After a bit of an unscheduled break over the past month I am trying to catch up on some planning so I thought I would share the link for my Calendar pages that I print out and keep on my … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 calendar, activity village, home ed, home educating mom, home education, homeschooling, planning
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My Top 2019 Finds
For the past 2 years I have written a Top 5 finds of the Year post and everyone seems to really like reading those posts so I thought I would continue. This is NOT a sponsored post, some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged children's book, educational resources, home education, homeschooling, Top 5
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Christmas Maths Mystery pages from Twinkl
We enjoy doing seasonal activities and we don’t just stick to crafts, a bit of holiday Maths always goes down well – both of mine far prefer the idea of Christmas Maths to normal maths. We have tried a few … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas Maths, home ed, home education, homeschooling, ks2, maths activities, Maths Mystery, Twinkl
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Book Presents
I love giving books as Christmas presents so sticking with my tradition I have already found a few which are going to be under the Christmas tree this year. We are going through a bit of an Art Phase at … Continue reading
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Tagged children's book, educational books, home ed, home education, homeschooling
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Rocks and Soil Topic Pack
We have been looking at Rivers and Erosion quite a bit over the last few weeks but one of the starting points for this topic was been having an understanding about rocks, the different types of rocks and how the … Continue reading
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Tagged educational resources, Geography, home ed, home education, homeschooling, ks2, Oaka Books, rocks
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Mom, you're stimming
This past week has been frustrating, people treating the kids like their needs are irrelevant and not considering our home education to be as important as traditional school. And when I get frustrated I tend to stim more than normal. … Continue reading
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Tagged home ed, home educating mom, home education, homeschooling, parenting, sensory processing disorder
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