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About ofamily

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

Kids Books – The Ark adventures

I stumbled onto a set of lovely books called Ark adventures by Sally Grindley and Alex Paterson.  It is a very modern entertaining version of Noah and his Ark and his attempts to get the different animals on his Ark.  … Continue reading

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Simple animal spelling pages

Pink is not a naturally keen writer, so I am often try new ideas to see if I can find something that she likes.  Every once in a while I hit the jackpot.  These simple spelling pages seems to have … Continue reading

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Conversation about sensory kids

I have often had other moms ask me why Pink covers her ears, flaps her arms or gets upset if they play loud music and when I try and explain she has spd the responses can vary from being very … Continue reading

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Beans Beans and more beans and then some more again.

The first time I made a bean sensory tub was over a year ago and was for the sole purpose of getting Pink to dig out hidden treasures and hence work on her spd.  Over a year ago and our … Continue reading

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Revision of sh, ch, th, wh

I believe in revisiting and revisiting and then revisiting some more what the kids learn at this age.  I think it is really important to make sure that the basic building blocks of their language skills and maths are solid. … Continue reading

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