Tag Archives: Oaka Books

Cells

Posted on June 9, 2020 by ofamily

We started looking at cells earlier this year and the kids created a visual representation of an animal cell and a plant cell using kitchen items like a plastic container, frozen peas and frozen corn. It was a great activity. … Continue reading →

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Plate Tectonics

Posted on May 1, 2020 by ofamily

We have been watching the documentary series – How the Earth was made – it is fascinating and often talks about Plate Tectonics and how the different plate boundaries acted to create different land forms. So I thought it was … Continue reading →

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Medieval Topic Packs

Posted on April 3, 2020 by ofamily

This past week I have still been out of it with the virus and as such we kept the home education routine to our scaled back version but the kids actually surprised us and ended up doing quite a bit … Continue reading →

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Learning with your arm in a cast

Posted on February 27, 2020 by ofamily

Over the weekend my daughter ended up fracturing her right elbow (well, we think it is fracture we have to wait until the swelling goes down for more x-rays). But it means her right arm has been placed in a … Continue reading →

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What’s the Matter? Board Game for KS2 Science

Posted on February 20, 2020 by ofamily

My son is very much someone who remembers things that HE finds interesting or amusing but if it is not something he is interested it he seems to forget it very quickly. He loves animals so biology has always been … Continue reading →

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