Month: March 2018
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Life of Fred: Butterflies Review Booklet – Free Printable!
About nine months ago, Gary got me Publisher, to fulfil my desire to create my own note pages. The reason I wanted to do this was two-fold. Firstly, I wanted to create pages which were very specific to what we were learning. Secondly, I wanted to be able to share something with you, my readers, […]
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Spring Precious Moments {24/03/2018}
I’ve not got much to talk about this week. Thomas has been doing past papers for the three IGCSEs he is sitting this summer. He has finished his Engineering BTEC and definitely achieved a credit and may have scraped a distinction. He is tired, fed up with past papers and can not wait for it […]
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How to Teach Homeschool Writing: Narration
Narration is another useful tool to have in your home school writing tool box. I have already talked about copywork as a first step in teaching your child to write, and narration can be used in conjunction with this. What is Narration? Narration is the telling back of something the child knows. It is the […]
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Mystery of History Lesson Three: Tubalcain and Jubal
The third Mystery of History lesson was about Tubal Cain and Jubal. The mention of these men in Genesis shows how advanced early man actually was. Jubal, the brother of Jabal, is the second son of Lamech with Adah.  He is described in the Bible as “the father of all such as handle the harp […]
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Astronomy Unit Study: Unit Three – Mercury
We are on unit three of our astronomy studies and have been learning all about Mercury. We have been using Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Astronomy. I also have access to Everyday Astronomy from School House Teachers, as well as lots of bits and pieces I used with my older ones that I have collected over […]
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Spring Seasons of Joy {17/03/2018}
I thought I’d use this space to record all we did for mother’s day. Mum had instructed me that I was, under no circumstances, to buy her anything or to spend money on her. With that in mind, I knew I would have to get really creative if I was to show her how much […]
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Precious Spring Moments {09/03/2018 – 16/03/2018}
It’s been a good week all in all. The little ones and I have been working hard on their history and I am loving the freedom of using a curriculum and adding my own little sparkle to it. Mystery of History is a great solid curriculum and, I have to say, not having to worry […]
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How to Make Bronze Age Artefacts for Imaginative Play and Learning
This is going to be a post outlining how we made our own Bronze Age Artefacts and will be mainly pictures with a few annotations. We have been learning about Tubal-Cain and Jubal in our Mystery of History lessons. They are only mentioned once in the Bible: His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the […]
