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On Reading Matter

07/11/2008

We are a reading family, if I confess that Jem at 4 weeks old was issued with his own library […]

07/10/2008

As I shared previously we were to study a little Shakespeare this term. Well we stayed to plan (amazing!;) We

07/10/2008

Term 4 starts back next week for us here, and I’m batting around different ideas in my head and not

15/09/2008

Recently we studied China and during that time read a picture book The Cloudmakers by James Rumford Princess was particularly

15/09/2008

Now I have found my camera/computer cord I thought it time to share the hands on projects the boys undertook

15/09/2008

Just thought I’d share a ‘Montessori Moment’ with the children. Princess is matching tastes. Using some old homeopathic bottles I

25/07/2008

For so long I have wanted the children to study Shakespeare but have been a little uncertain as to where

17/07/2008

As I shared previously I am organising our subjects for the term into blocks. For the five youngest that is.

16/07/2008

When the children were all primary age literature and poetry reading happened constantly and easily, for some inexplicable reason it

16/07/2008

Planning looks different for every family, in this household planning even looks different every term, dependent on many factors. Factors