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About ofamily

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

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Posted on July 23, 2014 by ofamily

I love the wonderful themed packs that 3 Dinosaurs makes, I find it is a great way to break up the kids learning as they always love the graphics and think the pages are fun.  We never do an entire … Continue reading →

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Truck Cards – numbers and Afrikaans calender cards

Posted on July 21, 2014 by ofamily

Blue has been asking me for some Truck cards so he can join in with Pink when she does her “school work” so I made him these Truck calender cards.  He has been using the date cards (numbers 1- 31) … Continue reading →

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Usborne First Numbers – brilliant book for Maths

Posted on July 19, 2014 by ofamily

I have picked up some lovely books at our local Oxfam shop recently and one of my favourite finds was this Usborne First numbers ( I have seen these books for sale on ebay and on Amazon). The book covers … Continue reading →

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Change in routine can mean unexpecting learning

Posted on July 17, 2014 by ofamily

We have had a very mixed up week.  The kids have been busy playing with their gran and doing lots of other fun activities so our normal homeschooling work just kinda got left behind a bit – but that is … Continue reading →

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Counting in 5’s and painting

Posted on July 10, 2014 by ofamily

I have a lovely book called “What your Year 1 child Needs to know”.  I like this book as it gives you some great ideas and one of these great ideas was doing hand painting  when you start your counting … Continue reading →

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