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About ofamily

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

I love Pinterest, I love looking through the broads and finding fun things for the kids to do.  I recently came across this post about teaching shapes from Prekinders.com and in the post they had a Geo board and some … Continue reading

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Number word writing in English and Afrikaans

We have been working on Pinks handwriting lately.  She loves writing little notes for us but she does not always get the tall letters verses the small letters correct.  I have in the past made her some spelling pages and … Continue reading

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Dear Zoo – sight words and stick puppets

On a recent trip to our local library Blue selected the Dear Zoo book.  Pink never really liked this book, until now that is.  When I started reading it to Blue she realised that she could read most of the … Continue reading

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Lets label the house

I have seen a number of different posts about getting the kids to label different items within the house so I thought I would give it a try.  I wrote out a few words over the weekend and left them … Continue reading

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Marmalade Cake

Pink loves baking so it was no surprise when she discovered the Cbeebies show I Can Cook, that she just loved it.  She recently watched an episode where they made marmalade cake and asked if we could bake some.  When … Continue reading

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