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Lovely New Photographic Christmas Posters

Lovely New Christmas Photographic Posters

Brighten up the classroom or home, or spark off some conversation and vocabulary learning with these lovely new Christmas posters, covering everything from poinsettia, holly and mistletoe to Christmas stockings and a nativity scene!

20 New Alphabet Challenge Puzzles

20 New Alphabet Challenge Puzzles

Our alphabet challenge puzzles are very popular - with all ages! Here are 20 more challenges that will really get the brains ticking over.

Learning About Mahatma Gandhi

Learning About Mahatma Gandhi

This week's "Famous Person" is Mahatma Gandhi - a shy, unassuming child with terrible handwriting who grew up to fight (peacefully) for the rights of his people and inspire independence for India through peaceful, non-violent protest.

Topping Up Our Thanksgiving Puzzle Collection

Topping Up Our Thanksgiving Puzzle Collection

We've got some fun new puzzles for Thanksgiving this year - including 3 new mazes, 3 new word searches, a boggler puzzle and a tiles puzzle. Fun for the classroom, or for passing the hours at home while the turkey cooks!

New Resources for Ordering Numbers to 20

New Resource for Ordering Numbers to 20

Learning to put numbers in order and identify the greatest and smallest numbers in a sequence is much more fun when helped along by a robot, or a balloon, or these other interesting worksheets!

Topping Up Our Steve Irwin Day Collection

Topping Up Our Steve Irwin Day Collection

My kids (and husband and I) were huge fans of Steve Irwin and we spent many happy hours learning from him and enjoying his enthusiasm - which shone through his TV shows and movies and infected us all.

New Thanksgiving Puzzles - How Many Words?

New Thanksgiving Puzzles - How Many Words?

The best thing about "how many word" puzzles is that they can be enjoyed by any age and played in a number of different ways - including as a team game for an after-dinner challenge with mixed ages, if you like!

New Winter Posters to Brighten Up Displays

New Winter Posters to Brighten Up Displays

These new posters are full of winter scenes, animals and birds we associate with winter, cosy winter clothes and fireplaces and hot chocolate, and action packed winter activities like sledding, skiing and skating!

Learning about Boudicca and her Rebellion Against the Romans

Learning about Boudicca and her Rebellion Against the Romans

Our "famous person" of the week this week is Queen Boudicca, brave Celtic queen of the 1st Century who rebelled against Roman rule - and was surprisingly successful, until her ultimate defeat by the much more skilled, better equipped Roman arm

12 New Handprint Poem Printables for Memory Making

12 New Handprint Poem Printables for Memory Making

Handprint poems are such a lovely way to "capture" a moment in your child's early years and make a quick and easy gift for grandparents and other family members, or for preschools and nurseries to send home for Mother's Day, Father'

64 New Arithmagon Puzzles to Challenge the Kids!

64 New Arithmagon Puzzles to Challenge the Kids!

We love arithmagons. They present as a puzzle, and certainly challenge the kids to put their thinking hats on. But of course they are secretly testing the children's knowledge of maths facts, so they are a puzzle in disguise!

Guest Post - Maths Fact Families

Guest Post - Maths Fact Families

In today's guest post, Shelly explains how she has been using our Fact Family Mats with her children to learn simple fact families up to 10 as well as look at bigger numbers, times tables, fractions and decimals.

Christmas Doodly Fun!

Christmas Doodly Fun!

It might seem early to be getting started for Christmas - but I love these pages so much I wanted to get them up on the website early so that Members have plenty of time to have a look, pick out their favourites and print them for their Christmas activi

Learning about Antony and Cleopatra

Learning about Antony and Cleopatra

This week we have two Famous People for the price of one! We've been learning about Antony and Cleopatra - two powerful, strong leaders in the ancient world who found themselves on the wrong side of the first emporor of Rome, Augustus.

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