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About ofamily

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

Mommy wars – why ?

I do not use the word HATE often but I am using it now – I HATE these mommy wars.  And I think the main reason is I do not understand why we have them. I gave birth to my … Continue reading

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The Owl’s lesson and Owl Babies

Pink is still reading the Owl Babies story over and over.  So when a recent trip to our local Oxfam store resulted in us finding a copy of this sweet Percy the Park Keeper story called The Owls Lesson and … Continue reading

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Construction play area

We have a new sensory play area and the kids are loving it. The blue mat is actually their large art messy mat, my attempt at trying to contain some of the excess sand.  I cut open some old Amazon … Continue reading

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Children’s Dinosaur books

Over the weekend as my kids where sitting on the couch reading their dinosaur books I realised just how many we have collected.  So these are our all time favourite books about Dinosaurs. Our very first dinosaur book was purchased … Continue reading

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Witches and Wizards Role playing

The kids are still reading the Room on the Broom every day and have been acting out bits of the story so I thought I would add some extra goodies to their role playing. We had some witches hats that … Continue reading

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