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Engineering for kids

This week we have gone from geography, to paper car building, to engineering for kids (via building a cardboard Elizabethan theatre!) – what a fun week! Engineering was kicked off by a link posted on Early Years HE Yahoo Group for this free bridge building game. We downloaded the 2006 version and much discussion ensued!!! In the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ancient Greece Resources Page

Just to let you know I have finished the Ancient Greece resources page. You can find it here or under the Project section. I have pulled together all the resources I used when we were looking at Ancient Greece – including books, games and links. I hope you find it useful. Let me know if [...]

Visual Mnemonics

I mentioned in my Times Tables post that we had used visual mnemonics to learn some Italian words, and I thought I would expand on that in this post. Mnemonic systems were developed by the Greeks (the name being derived from their worship of the Goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne). They discovered that memory worked best [...]

Ancient Egypt Resources Page

I have now (finally!) finished putting together the Ancient Egyptian resources page. You can find it at here or under the Project section. I have pulled together all the resources I used when were were looking at Ancient Egypt – including books, games and links.

Getting Organised!

Happy New Year!! I love the new year, and the new possibilities it brings. This is the time of year when I begin to think of the year ahead – and how to organise it!! I like to sit down each morning for 10 minutes and plan my day. When I was a working I was [...]

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