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Why We Don’t Do Crafts

May 8, 2015 By Racheous

The idea of ‘process over product’ is thrown around a lot regarding kids and creative processes. Still social media platforms like Pinterest and Facebook pages are littered with craft ideas for kids and crafts are so dang popular that I’m scared to write this post. You see, I want to provide a different point of […]

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Socialisation

April 22, 2015 By Racheous

You’ve heard it before. The dreaded S word when homeschooling comes up in conversation. There are tons of great writing out there about it. I wanted to share my take. When I’m asked about socialisation, I will ask back: What do you mean by socialisation?  What is it that concerns you? (because I guarantee we […]

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What to Say When Children Have Strong Emotions

November 4, 2014 By Racheous

Children of all ages experience strong emotions. As loving parents it can be uncomfortable to watch them struggle. You want to help them, you want them to be OK. But sometimes as a result of our own discomfort, we try to stop these emotions in their tracks. In turn we don’t allow our children to […]

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Forensic Science for Kids | Play-based Learning

June 21, 2014 By Racheous

Forensic Science for Kids play-based learning, resources, printables and learning unit forensics

contains affiliate/sponsored links This week with our homeschool co-op, we explored basic forensic science concepts! This was a really fun and engaging activity that the kids loved and much of it is super simple to set up! What you will need: a UV torch (aka blacklight – we got ours for cheap on ebay) a […]

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Keeping an Ideas Book | Day 23 – 30DaysTYP

April 23, 2014 By Racheous

Keeping an ‘Ideas Book’ or Journal is so helpful for children’s learning and playful discovery. While their ideas book can be used to document daily activities and thoughts and feelings about those activities, this kind of journaling should be separate to diary keeping. Having an ideas book is brilliant for encouraging reluctant writers, and helping […]

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