Category Archives: English Ideas

Lets go on a colour hunt in English, Afrikaans and Spanish

Posted on March 2, 2015 by ofamily

We started off last week doing a colour hunt when we were out for a walk at one of the National Trust sites.  We had our colour hunt pages on some clip boards and my daughter tore off running around … Continue reading →

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Paper chain learning

Posted on February 27, 2015 by ofamily

Our paper chain craze started a couple of weeks ago and we have ended up making so many different versions that I thought it was time to put it all down in a post. Our first paper chain activity was … Continue reading →

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Lets go on an African adventure

Posted on February 11, 2015 by ofamily

We have recently been having some fun learning about African animals.  We have done a number of activities on this theme before but the kids always seem to enjoy it so we often end up coming back to it. I … Continue reading →

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Australian animal writing practice

Posted on January 13, 2015 by ofamily

Both my kids love any learning activity which involves animals.  So when I try to come up with writing activities for Pink I often end up doing something with animals. We started off with the Australian animal word mat (FREE … Continue reading →

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Goldilocks and the three bears

Posted on October 31, 2014 by ofamily

Pink has never been a big fan of traditional stories but the last month I have tried to gently re-introduce some of the stories.  We have had some big hits and some clear losers.  We managed to pick up a … Continue reading →

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