Category Archives: ks1 English

Encouraging my little book worm with Autumn words

Posted on October 11, 2014 by

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

Posted on October 9, 2014 by

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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Train of many uses and it is FREE

Posted on October 1, 2014 by

I think husbands / wives / partners of us Home Edders deserve a medal.  They are the ones who have to go to work while we get to stay home and have the fun with the kids, they come home … Continue reading →

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Role Playing fun

Posted on September 29, 2014 by

The past few weeks my kids have been having a blast playing cafe with the added bonus that Pink has been practicing her writing, her reading and her Maths in a fun relaxed manner. Our “Cafe” is from Ikea, the … Continue reading →

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The Crunching Munching Caterpillar

Posted on September 7, 2014 by

We recently picked up a number of wonderful books at our local Oxfam shop and two of Blue’s favourites are The Crunching Munching Caterpillar (Very Noisy Picture Books) and The Very Lazy Ladybird (Very Noisy Picture Book) (Very Noisy Picture … Continue reading →

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Apple Trees and picking apples

Posted on September 3, 2014 by

We have been speaking about going apple picking for a whole week so when I finally said that we would go today the kids where very excited.   Pink and I  made an apple word tree earlier in the week so … Continue reading →

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Our favourite free resources from Twinkl

Posted on August 7, 2014 by

The last few weeks I have been trying to get a rough plan of what we are going to do in the next 12 months and get a few things printed out and sorted.  I have downloaded a bunch of … Continue reading →

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