Category Archives: Homeschooling

Working out which numbers are Greater Than.

Over the weekend while the kids were weighing their toys again (they have done this a few times and enjoy figuring out which combination of toys is heavier), I had a sudden thought what if we weighed some craft sticks … Continue reading

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Sand Words

My kids love sand art but in the past we bought small sets of sand art and they used the coloured sand to decorate pictures.  I never realised you could just purchase the coloured sand in bottles – like this … Continue reading

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Word Hunt

My youngest is loving his reading at the moment, he will bring me four of his BOB readers at one go and want to sit and read all of them to me.  He is really good at sounding out his … Continue reading

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Kumon My Book of Numbers 1-30

I am often asked – “what workbooks do the kids use ?” – honest answer – not that many actually.  When I first started homeschooling I made the common mistake of going out and buying a whole bunch and well … Continue reading

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Compound Word Folder

We have been working a lot on spelling lately and as part of that we have been talking about compound words and how often when we spell larger words it is simply two smaller words put together. We used the … Continue reading

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