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Journaling

I mentioned in my post on Doing the Days that I would tell you about our experiences of journaling – so here they are!! I got into journaling (although I had always journaled a little) after reading The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. She advocates the use of morning pages – 3 pages to be written every [...]

Times Tables

We have been re-visiting our times tables the last few weeks (to be fair – I am the one who needs the practice!). Some of these resources are already on my blog, but I thought it would be useful to pull them all together. Big Brainz have a multiplication PC game called Timez Attack. You [...]

Free Home Education Resources

As a home educator, I am always on the lookout for free resources I can use – and places where I can share the ones I find!! There are lots of websites that focus on this – here are a few that I use. Home_Education_Resources is a yahoo group to “find and promote resources for [...]

A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing!

Schoolhouse Rock!! How could I not know about this? Apparently, “Schoolhouse Rock originally aired on the ABC Television Network from 1973 to 1985. This classic series of three-minute educational vignettes combined animation, hip music, and catchy lyrics to tackle lessons in American history, the rules of grammar, multiplication tables, science, government, and finance. Its toe-tapping [...]

December Reading

A little early perhaps!! I wanted to give you time to get organised! In December we like to switch our reading to books about christmas. We have some favourites that we pull out, and I usually introduce a new book that I think we will enjoy. The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg is [...]

The Toymaker

Whilst searching for something entirely different, I happened upon a great site this week. Its called The Toymaker and it has lots of printable paper toys to make. I think the Wind Boats look great fun, and I think my boy would like Florimel the Magnificent. Definitely a site to keep up your sleeve for a [...]

Podcasts and Audio

We don’t tend to listen to a lot of radio in our house – but we love to listen to stuff on CD in the car. I already have posted about audiobooks, but we also like to download other ‘listens’. Here are some of our favorites: Radio Children is a free UK podcast. Sound quality is [...]

Cooking up culture

I wonder if I am preaching to the converted with this post, but one of the things we have been implementing is a monthly(ish!) ‘culture cooking’ session. We choose a different country (or historical period) each session – and then try to cook and eat a meal from that place. This has been a great success [...]

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