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Se7en More HomeSchool Questions…

November 11th, 2009 · 13 Comments

I know I haven’t answered your homeschool questions forever and I always promise I will blog about it and never get to it. Well I am finally blogging about homeschooling, something dear to my heart and something I would blog a whole lot more about – but we have had babies on our mind around [...]

This Week (5 October) At Se7en…

October 6th, 2009 · 5 Comments

So this is October, how did that happen!!! Another week with a whole lot of new days to celebrate. And a new month is almost upon us, here are the calendars for October:

About.com’s Calendar.
Crayola.com
Enchanted Learning.
Reading Activity Calendar.
Teacher Vision.

We are still totally celebrating Hood #8…

So here are a couple of links for this week, but [...]

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Tags: Celebrity Calendar

Virtual Voyage – We are off on a trip to Africa…

August 15th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Finally after our mid-year break from school we are back in the swing and getting on with our Virtual Voyage… Our passports are ready and good to go…

And we are off to Africa…

We started by puzzling and playing this fun map game online.
And then we went a searching:

We found some good resources on the internet:

Great [...]

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Se7en More Homeschool Questions, Especially In South Africa

May 29th, 2009 · 32 Comments

These are Se7en homeschool questions that I get asked quite often, so I thought I would blog about them. Homeschooling in South Africa, how you get started and what about the legality of it and so on. I thought I would answer your questions as best I could and you can ask some more and [...]

Se7en Learning to Read Resources…

May 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments

I would never normally post a school resource page on the weekends – especially a May Day weekend where everybody’s last thought is on school… but trust me on this and my reasoning will become clear!!!
So let’s get down to reading: I used to think I just had to survive until all my children were [...]

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Tags: Language Arts · Se7en at School

Se7en do Poetry, Packed with Poetry Resources for Kids.

April 29th, 2009 · 13 Comments

A couple of folk have said to me that they never do the poetry set for school, their kids just don’t get it. And I must say the way we did it as school was pretty tragic: Once a week the teacher put a poem on the board and after reading it through in silence [...]

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Se7en do School Journals…

March 20th, 2009 · 25 Comments

When my kids start school I get them a big fat counter book for all those loose bits and pieces that do not belong in actual workbooks. We called it The Journal and so begins their school journaling journey.
But the journals got too fat too quickly and were stuffed with too many goodies to [...]