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Sunflower poetry unit from Twinkl

Posted on June 15, 2021 by ofamily

Over the past few months we have been focusing a bit more on poetry (it is one of those areas that I feel we have neglected a bit). We have been working through a workbook, trying to read and discuss … Continue reading →

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Variation and Classification Topic Pack

Posted on June 11, 2021 by ofamily

My daughter really enjoys Biology (she is already saying she wants to do it as a GCSE subject or in our case probably IGCSE), she even gets Biology linked books out of the library to read just for fun. But … Continue reading →

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Scarlet Ibis

Posted on June 7, 2021 by ofamily

The first time we ever came across the author Gill Lewis was last year when someone kindly recommended her book Sky Hawk. The kids and I read it together and loved everything about the book. We actually used it as … Continue reading →

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Physics Matching Pairs Game

Posted on June 4, 2021 by ofamily

I love the idea of the Oaka Books Science matching pairs game. It is a simple and straight forward concept but one which I think helps to reinforce what the kids have learnt. We have already been using the Biology … Continue reading →

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Warrior Boy – book review

Posted on June 1, 2021 by ofamily

I have been reserving a number of books from our local library and reading them in a quest to try and find a good selection of books for ages 10+ (it is a bit of a work in progress) but … Continue reading →

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