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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weekly with pictures and projects from our homeschool - maybe you can find something to inspire you :) I have a (no longer updated) materials page elsewhere on my website and will, occasionally, post my homemade materials in this blog.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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Friday, April 23, 2010

Things we've done ... and a file :)

Just a quick blog today as I'm not feeling too good - got a nasty sore throat that may or may not turn into something more horrible :(

Anyway, here's some stuff we've been doing:

April has been practicing her reading by matching phrases - got this set from Montessori for Everyone - she's been having great fun making silly sentences :)

 

We've played with the Cuisenaire Rods and made cubed numbers

 

and April has been doing some money activities. Here is a really basic one working with pennies up to 10p. She reads the amount, counts out the right numbers of pennies and turns the card over to check. There's a little booklet to go with these that she hasn't done yet and ..oh... she's not actually DOING the activity in this picture. Ahem. Just playing with the money!

 

I've been tidying shelves (they were hideously messy!) and cleared up a bit of space on our geography shelf for .... something .. not decided yet! We're lacking in space here - have to cram a lot of materials into a very small area!

 

I also put out a couple of spring science activities for the kids - on the left April's basket for put a white flower into food colouring to change it's colour (no flower there yet!) and Rosie's - she's going to test various flowers and leaves from the garden using universal indicator paper. The spring nature table looks cute too :)

Oh, and the file? It's the money counting cards in the above picture :) There are 2 ways you can make these - as per the picture OR (as detailed in the file) by making them separate cards and matching them. If you do our method then you'll need to supply a whole bunch of pennies and if you do the other way you'll have to put coloured dots on the backs of the cards for checking afterwards. Obviously UK money so probably not much use to anyone anywhere else - sorry!

Here's the file:

Counting Pennies to 10p