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Welcome to my blog. It is updated weekly with pictures and projects from our homeschool - maybe you can find something to inspire you :) I have a (no longer updated) materials page elsewhere on my website and will, occasionally, post my homemade materials in this blog.

I'm married to Tim (delivery driver and gorgeous musician), have 2 daughters, live on the south coast of the UK and have 1 aging cat (Hemmingway or Hemmy for short). I love reading, yoga, crafts, baking, daft old comedies, music and teaching.

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Belated post!

I meant to post this a couple of days ago but forgot! Here are a few activities over recent days (by April):

Sink and float experiment

 

Building words (objects)

We started learning about space and April coloured some planets and glued them in order on some dark paper (idea from My Montessori Journey blog)

She also worked with our planet models and learned the order of the planets from the sun (unfortunately, we seem to have mislaid Mercury and it had to be replaced with a small orange bead!)

I've been putting together maths materials ready for when April needs them (which might be quite soon) - I've done the addition boards and I'm working on the golden bead material at the moment. I'm using real gold coloured beads for the units and ten bars and printed versions for the 100 squares and 1000 cube. Below is my file which you can use if you want - just print, cut out, score, fold and glue for the cubes - for the 100 squares just cut apart (and laminate for durability if you want). This is not a huge cube but (by sheer coincidence!) the little circles are exactly the same size as the beads I'm using so, if I take one of our ten bars and place it on the row of "beads" on the hundred square it fits exactly!

Printout for 100 squares/1000 cube