Things I Forgot

Ok, so I cheated a bit with the title here, as none of my children have directly asked me what cellulose is. However, a little while ago I w...

Garden Girl is given a piece of 'talk homework' every week. She is basically given a topic to talk about with us and then she writes...

There are lots of books available that help young children learn to count. The important thing when learning how to count is repetition and ...

Garden Boy frequently asks me why things are called what they are and most of the time, a name is just a name for no particular reason. Ho...

In phonics, vowels are usually pronounced like this: a as in c a t e as in b e t i as in f i t o as in h o t u as in h u m However,...

I'm not sure I have really managed to answer this question, although I have satisfied Garden Girl with an answer of sorts. The actual ...

Garden Girl wanted to count to 100 but didn't quite have the patience to get there. She stumbled whenever she reached 29, 39, 49 etc bec...