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Baking Crunchies

It is true when they say that your sense can trigger a memory.  Today the kids and I baked some crunchies,  as soon as I took a bite I was back in my mom’s kitchen in South Africa.  I asked … Continue reading

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The Crunching Munching Caterpillar

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

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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Starting year 2 and making Collages

The kids and I had a blast this weekend experimenting with our food dye and bits and pieces out of the kitchen cupboards.  We started off dyeing some rice, mainly as we have done this a number of times before … Continue reading

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Elmer and ballerina collages

I have been spending quite a lot of time on the Twinkl webiste looking for maths and english pages and just generally searching the website.  On one of these searches I came across these great looking Elmer colouring pages (Platinum … Continue reading

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