Category Archives: English Ideas

Apple Trees and picking apples

Posted on September 3, 2014 by ofamily

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 ofamily

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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Catching stars – phonic fun

Posted on June 26, 2014 by ofamily

A few weeks ago we went around to a friends house and they where fishing for sight words, what a great fun idea !!!!  I had been thinking of revising some of the harder phonic sounds with Pink so I … Continue reading →

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Number word writing in English and Afrikaans

Posted on June 22, 2014 by ofamily

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

Posted on June 19, 2014 by ofamily

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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