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Homeschool Books; Big List of Children’s Novels

How many homeschool books have you and your children read? There’s a slew of picture books about starting school, and many more novels about older schoolchildren. However, if your kids want to feel more connected to the characters they read… Continue Reading →

Geometric Photo Collage

Take your child’s knowledge of shapes out of the classroom and into the real world! A geometric photo collage is the perfect way to apply maths lessons to a practical and funky art activity. What You Need Cardboard (A4 or… Continue Reading →

The Day The Crayons Quit Lesson Ideas

The Day The Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt, is an adorable picture book for elementary or primary school students. One day, Duncan receives some mysterious postcards – from his fed up crayons! The crayons are tired of being pigeonholed by their colours,… Continue Reading →

Teachers Pay Teachers Review; Things I Love About TpT

One of my favourite teaching resource sites is Teachers Pay Teachers. (It’s the one I turn to the most, after Twinkl.) I love searching for freebies or buying cute top-up resources. I’m going to share some of my favourites in… Continue Reading →

Basic Mandarin

It’s been a little while since we worked on our Mandarin Chinese, due to computer issues. With that in mind, we revised some basics today. (There seems a never ending list of to-do issues. You can tell it’s about time… Continue Reading →

The Runaway Rice Cake

Continuing our Spring Festival mini topic, we read The Runaway Rice Cake* by Ying Chang Compestine. It’s similar to various “gingerbread” stories like The Gingerbread Man, Gingerbread Cowboy, and Gingerbread Baby. There’s a hungry family, an item of food that… Continue Reading →

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