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About ofamily

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

Number learning activities

My little boy is number mad at the moment so I thought I would put together a summary of some of the number activities that we have been doing. Hopscotch numbers. Blue loves using the Hopscotch mat – he will … Continue reading

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Owls

After a recent trip to the local library both kids chose Owl books.  Pink actually choose Owl Babies to be one of her readers and Blue choose The Owl who was afraid of the dark.  Both are lovely children’s books … Continue reading

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Pumpkin Maths !!

We have never been big on Halloween.  As a kid we never did anything for it and my eldest is not keen on anything slightly scary but my little boy is a different story.  He loves all the creepy crawlies … Continue reading

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Encouraging my little book worm with Autumn words

My little girl has always loved books, she has always loved story time and would often just sit and page through her books and make up her own story to go with them.  But the last few weeks her reading … Continue reading

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Room on the Broom and rhyming words

Over the weekend we happened to end up in a lovely toy store which had a big display of Room on the Broom books and toys.  My kids love the story and naturally loved looking at all the toys on … Continue reading

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