Christian books for children
Learning with counters Counting with counters Counters are useful to use for patterns that help fix numbers into the child’s mind. You can also tie them into the learning with dice from a previous blog. Some methods Here are a few methods that you can utilise with your child or children. These are only a …
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Working with sticks Working with sticks can be an excellent tool to teach proportion in size. In fact, you can transform your child’s understanding of proportion with simple and yet memorable sticks. Therefore, by playing around with the sticks, several exercises can teach children which is larger or smaller or ascending and descending sizes. In …
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Early learning exercises in maths The three R’s It was my goal to teach through the three R’s – reading, writing and arithmetic. We approached these fields of learning through memory cards, word building games, dice, games we invented, hands-on materials and many other everyday things. This core part of our work was our morning …
my first mistake – the official schedule By Janet Hodgson 16/06/2020 The schedule In those first earlier days, I made lists as to what I would endeavour to do, planning times and topics. Oh, what a mistake – well for me anyway. Some may thrive off such lists, but for me, …
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Written by Janet Hodgson THE FIRST DAY 11/06/2020 The start The first official start to homeschooling began on Thursday the 20th of August 1992. It was undertaken like many new ventures are: with a tentative toe feeling the waters into an ocean of uncertainty. It was actually a kind of experimental home school trial to …
So you want to home school your children! Article by John Hodgson 10/06/2020 Homeschooling has become quite a popular method of educating children in the U.K. and other parts of the world. There are many reasons why parents consider this as an option, from educational achievement to just being able to spend more time …