Book Review – Doing the Days
Doing the Days by Lorraine Dahlstrom has been quite a hit in our household. The book contains “A years worth of Creative Journaling, Drawing, Listening, Reading, Thinking, Arts & Crafts activities for Children ages 8-12″ I bought it because we do quite a lot of journaling (more on that in a future post!) and I thought [...]
Audiobook Review – Trollogy!
Despite rolling their eyes every time I mention my website (OK, so I may have mentioned it quite a lot!), the children keep asking ‘have you told everyone about Trollogy! yet?’ Trollogy! is by Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore, and is actually the third book in the Tales of the Dark Forest series (the first being [...]
Five in a row
So, to start off this blog, I have been thinking about those resources I found most useful when I began to home educate. I think one of the first I found was Five in a Row. It was this site that first clued me into the value of teaching children through literature. A good story can [...]
The Wind Singer
We went away for the weekend this week and grabbed some audiobooks from the library before we went. The one we decided on was The Wind Singer by William Nicholson (read by Samuel West). It was thrilling! I thought it may be too old for my 7 year old – suggested ages for the book [...]
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