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Book Review - Belair books

As a home educator, I am always on the lookout for ideas I can use - and I think the Belair books are a great source of art projects.
The huge range of Belair books are mostly aimed at teachers wishing to create classroom displays. Some of the ideas therefore are a bit school oriented, but they […]

Free Printable

My kids said I should post this link, as they have had so much fun with it.
PaperCars.net provides printouts of several types of cars (click on the cars button) that you can cut out and glue (we used tape!). Some of them are trickier than others - the VW Bus is a good one to […]

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

And other Geography resources!!
I have just finished putting this resource page together here. I hope you enjoy it.
If you have any further geography resources you can recommend, please leave a comment or email me. I would be very happy to hear from you.

Animation and Filmaking

We have been stuck in this week (new puppy!) so the children have been making an animation. We made one some time ago by drawing a background picture (the sea) and taking still pictures of the drawn and cut out characters (fish) which we moved a fraction each time. When we strung the pictures together […]

Heart Exhibition

This site can take a little while to load (and has a strange navigation method), but the Wellcome Collection’s Heart Exhibition is a fascinating look at the human heart - from scientific details to how it has been presented in art.
An interesting tour for older children.

Book Review - Discovering Great Artists

Discovering Great Artists by MaryAnn Kohl seems to be a book that I keep going back to, and one I find very useful.
The book contains 110 art projects for children, each project based upon the styles and techniques of the great masters. The artists are grouped by style (Impressionist, Modern, Realism etc.) and a small paragraph […]

Jar of Links - Maths sites

I seem to be stock-piling links at the moment!! Here are the maths ones!

Many thanks to Jenny for the first two links.

SenTeacher have got several printables available, including printouts for the construction of common 3D shapes. Cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone, regular pyramid, octahedron, rhomboid, tetrahedron, pentagonal prism and pyramid are included. I also liked the […]