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Today AC left to return to Brighton for 3 weeks and Sam went to her first Explorations Studio class. Here she sits in front of her “house with a view.”

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Our last craft and last session at Hove Home Ed playgroup today 🙁

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Today the kids made chocolate cakes in a cup: cocoa, flour, sugar, oil, egg, milk + two minutes in the microwave = yum.

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at Hove Home Ed today.

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After French club the kids have a snack and then they explode into play. During the explosion phase, I was chatting to someone when one of the other parents grabbed me and pointed at the girls. I was quite pleased that Sam was reading to her friends, and surprised because it was a library book that I don’t think she’d …

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I’m spoiling Sam’s present to a friend of ours whose birthday happens to be tomorrow. (I’m hoping that she won’t read my blog until then!) Sam decided to write her a story and this is page one of the results. Here it is transcribed with the phonetic spelling edited: For Swim the Turtle It was Swim the Turtle’s …

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I love Richard Wilbur’s poetry and I especially appreciate his collection for kids: The Disappearing Alphabet. Here is Wilbur on what would happen if there were no letter J: If, all at once, there were no letter J, A cloud of big blue birds might fly away, And though they’d been an angry, raucous crew, I think that I …

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It’s not Fall in the UK, it’s Autumn. And Autumn has been asserting its arrival in the UK long before yesterday’s equinox. Now there’s no pretending that it’s still summer. Even in the occasional sunny air there’s a new crispness. The light in the morning is different, brighter, and at the end of the day it recedes …

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