We are 5 weeks into lockdown (I think?? The days and weeks are rolling into one and I'm not really sure!?) and at least 1 more to go! We are doing ok. Doing our best to get work done, keep the housework going, baking, crafts, garden makeover, etc. We've also taken this time to work [...]
Tag: teaching kids
15 Challenges To Set Your Children To Help Them Fight Bordem And Grow In Confidence
Our 4 Freckled Faces are all at different ages and abilities, which is making 'Crisis Schooling' a little tricky in these COVID19 Lockdown times. I'm sure this is the case for lots of you too, right? I have been setting them challenges that they can all do to the best of their own abilities, but [...]
Teaching Our Children To Be Thoughtful In A Time Of Crisis
I'm sure there are a lot of parents who are trying to figure out how they are going to home school their children and trying their best to prepare. I thought I would share something that I am going to be including in our home schooling over the next.....however long!? There is so much craziness [...]
Math Trees – FREE Printable!
When I make activities up for the kids, I try to do the same activity but vary the difficulty for the different abilities. I don't want to make extra work for myself....but at the same time I don't want to give my kids an easy life - after all, they don't give me one! I [...]
Catalyst Science and Discovery Centre
We had a great day out at the Catalyst Discovery Centre in Widnes. We had a nightmare time getting there .... and getting back home was far from smooth sailing too! Journeys aside though - we enjoyed our time there. There are lots of interactive scientific areas for all ages. The ground floor was our [...]
Three Discovery Centre
Did you know that Three offer free learning courses?? I didn't until a few weeks ago! Last Friday Freckled Faces numbers 1 and 2 were invited to take part in a vlogging class with Three Discovery. This course was aimed at 7-12yr olds. They were keen on learning more and it will hopefully help them [...]
Easter Crafts – Mrs Mactivity
Easter is coming up and as we love doing arts and crafts I am always on the look out for ideas. Mrs Mactivity very kindly gifted us a year subscription to their website. I am so grateful for this! I love doing activities and arts and crafts with the kids, but life can get really [...]
Easy Solar System Craft!
Freckled Face number 3 is learning about Space at school at the moment. She wanted to make something at home to take in to school. So we decided to do something to do with the solar system. Here's what we came up with.... WHAT WE USED 2 sheets of black A4 card Glue Glitter (silver) [...]
Why we decided to not encourage our kids to write letters to Santa
Now I'm sure that I'm going to get a lot of feedback on this.....maybe even hate mail! BUT, I feel this is important and would like you to hear me out...😉 So, this year we decided that our 4 Freckled Faces were not going to write letters to Santa/Father Christmas, and list everything they would [...]
Freckled Face Friday – Geography
Hi everyone! I am Freckled Face number 1! Yay! I'm the oldest! I wanted to write about Geography. All About Geography Geography is really interesting for me because I like to find out about countries. Geography is about the world and countries. I find countries very interesting and every day I test myself on where [...]
