Incr-Edible Science: Making our own Baking Powder

Whilst my home-made Incr-Edible Science curriculum is primarily one of chemistry, my personal aim is to help L10 become knowledgeable in the 'why' of cooking, rather than just the 'how'.  L10 craves to be in the kitchen every spare moment and would like to run her own business linked in some way to cooking in…

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Preschool Adventure Box: B4FIAR The Red Carpet

Each week my two youngest are given a preschool adventure work box full of lots of exciting activities for them to do throughout the week.  They are allowed to have a quick look through to build up their excitement for the week ahead.   This week their B4FIAR book was The Red Carpet and the theme for the week was 'maps'. …

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Making Memories

On Sunday the weather was glorious and the coast was beckoning to us; so we all piled into the car and headed to our favourite beach, and made it just in time for a picnic lunch:

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Young Artists at Play: Experimenting with Home-made Paint

When I called my young artists to the table for their art time, they were just a little bit excited: And so they should have been!  We had made some home-made paints during our science time the day before and we coloured some foam with food colourings to give us a very different textured paint. …

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Looking Back: Ancient Greece – Play Acting Athenian Hierarchy

It seems like an age since my last 'Looking Back' Post on Ancient Minoans.  After the Minoans we studied Mycenaean history, but it doesn't make for very interesting reading and I can't find any photos so I'm skipping straight onto Athenian Hierarchy. The social structure was very specific in ancient Greece and very clear-cut.  It…

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